John Oldland

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

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 667g
• ISBN-13: 9780367179748
• ISBN-10: 0367179741
• Artikelnr.: 55101608

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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