The English Woollen Industry, C.1200-C.1560

ISBN-13: 9780367179748 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 358 str.

John Oldland

Opis

This is the first book on the early woollens’ industry. Based on original research, it explains how the eventual combination of rural clothiers making superior cloth and Merchant Adventurers selling it at Antwerp led to English dominance of the European cloth trade by the mid-sixteenth century.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to English Woollens  2. Woollens Production and the Growing English Advantage  3. Dress, the Wool Supply, and Industry Regulation  4. The Thirteenth Century: A False Start?  5. Coarse Woollens in the Early-Fourteenth Century  6. The Fourteenth-Century Urban Revival  7. Revival of Exports, and an Assessment of Clothmaking at the End of the Fourteenth Century  8. Working Conditions in Towns  9. The Turbulent Fifteenth Century  10. The Clothiers’ Century 1450-1550  11. The March of the Clothiers  12. The London-Antwerp Ascendency and the Merchant Adventurers Company  13. Export Expansion, 1470-1555  14. Location of the Sixteenth-Century Woollens Industry  15. Crossroads

O autorze

John Oldland is Professor Emeritus at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec.