Trade, Money, and Power in Medieval England

Pamela Nightingale is a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK.

• Contents: Introduction; Communication through capital and trade: money and the rise of a market economy in medieval Europe; The ora, the mark, and the mancus: weight-standards and the coinage in 11th-century England (parts 1 & 2); The evolution of weight standards and the creation of new monetary and commercial links in Northern Europe from the 10th century to the 12th century; Some London moneyers, and reflections on the organisation of English Mints in the 11th and 12th centuries; The origin of the Court of Husting and Danish influence on London's development into a capital city; 'The king's profit': trends in English Mint and monetary policy in the 11th and 12th centuries; The London Pepperers' Guild and some 12th-century English trading links with Spain; The lay subsidies and the distribution of wealth in medieval England, 1275-1334; Norwich, London, and the regional integration of Norfolk's economy in the first half of the 14th century; The English parochial clergy as investors and creditors in the first half of the 14th century; Knights and merchants: trade, politics, and the gentry in late medieval England; The growth of London in the medieval English economy; Capitalists, crafts, and constitutional change in late 14th-century London; Money and credit in the economy of late medieval England; Monetary contraction and mercantile credit in later medieval England; England and the European depression of the mid-15th century; Index.

’It is a great privilege to review a collection of Nightingale’s collected articles, for she is one of the most wide-ranging historians now working in Britain.... this is medieval economic history at its superb best.’ Economic History Review ’Pamela Nightingale has long made a reputation as one of the leading economic historians of medieval England, with an enviably long chronological range. It is therefore a great service to have gathered here in one volume seventeen of her articles ... we have here a valuable and sparkling collection, one which no serious student of medieval England can aff ord to ignore.’ English Historical Review