Medieval Merchants: York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages(Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth)

Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth

This book is based on the biographies of some 1400 individuals who lived in three northern English towns during the later Middle Ages. It analyzes the many aspects of merchant society: achievements in politics, attitudes toward religion, the family, wider circles of friends and business acquaintances, and the nature and conduct of trade. Merchants were at the core of urban society and played a cen