High Germans in the Low Countries

Donald J. Harreld, Ph.D. (2000) in History, University of Minnesota, is Assistant Professor of History at Brigham Young University.

• Ch. 1 Introduction 1 Ch. 2 The development of the Antwerp market before 1500 17 Ch. 3 Antwerp's foreign merchant communities 40 Ch. 4 The Germans in Antwerp 60 Ch. 5 Commerce and urban networks 95 Ch. 6 The infrastructure of Antwerp's German trade 114 Ch. 7 Trade between Antwerp and Germany in the sixteenth century 128 Ch. 8 German activities in the second half of the sixteenth century and the decline of the Antwerp market 172 Ch. 9 The German contribution 184 App. 1 Money 191 App. 2 Merchants with exports to Germany over 1000 [pound] Flemish Groot (1543-1545) 193 App. 3 Total value of exports from Antwerp to various German cities (1543-1545) 195 App. 4 Value of principal products exported from Antwerp to South German destinations (1543-1545)

'Harreld casts considerable light on what has been a dark corner of the economic history of Antwerp.'James M. Murray, American Historical Review, 2005.