Jessica Dijkman, Ph.D. (2010) in History, Utrecht University, is a postdoc researcher at the department of Economic and Social History in Utrecht. She publishes on institutions regulating trade and production in the Middle Ages.

• List of TablesList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPreface1. IntroductionPART I: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: TRADE VENUES2. Fairs3. Rural markets c. 1200 – c. 1350: a late start?4. New institutions for rural trade (c. 1350 – c. 1450)5. The Dordrecht staplePART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: RULES AND PRACTICES6. Weighing and measuring7. Contract enforcementPART III: MARKET PERFORMANCE: QUANTITATIVE TESTS8. Market integration9. Market orientation10. ConclusionsAPPENDICESAppendix A. Survey of fairsAppendix B. Rural weigh houses in the north of Holland around 1400Appendix C. Charters of urban libertiesAppendix D. Wheat pricesReferencesIndex

"[Shaping medieval markets] deepens our understanding of the economy of Holland. But more than that, Dijkman has succeeded in presenting an original and valuable contribution to the ongoing debates on the institutional preconditions for economic growth in the late middle ages and early modern era." - Job Weststrate, in: Economic History Society, Vol. 66, No. 2 (2013), pp. 664-665"[…] Shaping medieval markets [is] een meer dan voorbeeldige studie […], perfect op het kruispunt van theorie en bron, en een bijzonder inspirerende leidraad voor verder onderzoek naar de oorzaken van economische groei én stagnatie binnen en buiten de Nederlanden." - Jord Hanus, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis / The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History (t-seg), Vol. 9, No. 4 (2012), pp. 83-85

Jessica Dijkman, Ph.D. (2010) in History, Utrecht University, is a postdoc researcher at the department of Economic and Social History in Utrecht. She publishes on institutions regulating trade and production in the Middle Ages.

• List of TablesList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPreface1. IntroductionPART I: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: TRADE VENUES2. Fairs3. Rural markets c. 1200 – c. 1350: a late start?4. New institutions for rural trade (c. 1350 – c. 1450)5. The Dordrecht staplePART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: RULES AND PRACTICES6. Weighing and measuring7. Contract enforcementPART III: MARKET PERFORMANCE: QUANTITATIVE TESTS8. Market integration9. Market orientation10. ConclusionsAPPENDICESAppendix A. Survey of fairsAppendix B. Rural weigh houses in the north of Holland around 1400Appendix C. Charters of urban libertiesAppendix D. Wheat pricesReferencesIndex

"[Shaping medieval markets] deepens our understanding of the economy of Holland. But more than that, Dijkman has succeeded in presenting an original and valuable contribution to the ongoing debates on the institutional preconditions for economic growth in the late middle ages and early modern era." - Job Weststrate, in: Economic History Society, Vol. 66, No. 2 (2013), pp. 664-665"[…] Shaping medieval markets [is] een meer dan voorbeeldige studie […], perfect op het kruispunt van theorie en bron, en een bijzonder inspirerende leidraad voor verder onderzoek naar de oorzaken van economische groei én stagnatie binnen en buiten de Nederlanden." - Jord Hanus, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis / The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History (t-seg), Vol. 9, No. 4 (2012), pp. 83-85

Jessica Dijkman, Ph.D. (2010) in History, Utrecht University, is a postdoc researcher at the department of Economic and Social History in Utrecht. She publishes on institutions regulating trade and production in the Middle Ages.

• List of TablesList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPreface1. IntroductionPART I: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: TRADE VENUES2. Fairs3. Rural markets c. 1200 – c. 1350: a late start?4. New institutions for rural trade (c. 1350 – c. 1450)5. The Dordrecht staplePART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: RULES AND PRACTICES6. Weighing and measuring7. Contract enforcementPART III: MARKET PERFORMANCE: QUANTITATIVE TESTS8. Market integration9. Market orientation10. ConclusionsAPPENDICESAppendix A. Survey of fairsAppendix B. Rural weigh houses in the north of Holland around 1400Appendix C. Charters of urban libertiesAppendix D. Wheat pricesReferencesIndex

"[Shaping medieval markets] deepens our understanding of the economy of Holland. But more than that, Dijkman has succeeded in presenting an original and valuable contribution to the ongoing debates on the institutional preconditions for economic growth in the late middle ages and early modern era." - Job Weststrate, in: Economic History Society, Vol. 66, No. 2 (2013), pp. 664-665"[…] Shaping medieval markets [is] een meer dan voorbeeldige studie […], perfect op het kruispunt van theorie en bron, en een bijzonder inspirerende leidraad voor verder onderzoek naar de oorzaken van economische groei én stagnatie binnen en buiten de Nederlanden." - Jord Hanus, in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis / The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History (t-seg), Vol. 9, No. 4 (2012), pp. 83-85