Money, Markets and Trade in Late Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of John H.A. Munro

Lawrin Armstrong (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1996) is Associate Professor of Medieval Studies and Associate Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. His research focuses on the relationship between economics and law in late medieval and Renaissance Italy.Ivana Elbl (Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1986) is Associate Professor of History, Trent University, and Chief Editor of the Portuguese Studies Review. Her research focuses on societal dynamics of the late medieval Portugal and the early Portuguese overseas expansion.Martin Elbl (M.A, University of Toronto, 1981) is adjunct member of the Department of History, Trent University, and Associate Editor of the Portuguese Studies Review. His research and publications focus on late medieval Italian and Iberian relations with North Africa.

The volume explores late medieval market mechanisms and associated institutional, fiscal and monetary, organizational, decision-making, legal and ethical issues, as well as selected aspects of production, consumption and market integration. The essays span a variety of local, regional, and long-distance markets and networks.

Preface Herman Van der Wee Money and Ethics Law, Ethics and Economy: Gerard of Siena and Giovanni d'Andrea on Usury Lawrin Armstrong Max Weber and Usury: Implications for Historical Research Lutz Kaelber Taxation and Revenue The King's Business in Africa: Decisions and Strategies of the Portuguese Crown Ivana Elbl Civic Debt, Civic Taxes, and Urban Unrest: A Catalan Key to Interpreting the Late Fourteenth-Century European Crisis Jeffrey Fynn-Paul Tolls and Trade in Medieval England James Masschaele Expenditure and War Calculating Profits and Losses during the Hundred Years War Kelly DeVries The Cost of Majesty: Financial Reform and the Development of the Royal Court in Portugal and England at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century Susannah C. Humble Ferreira Warfare, Shipping, and Crown Patronage: The Economic Impact of the Hundred Years War on the English Port Towns Maryanne Kowaleski Land and Labour Peasant Servitude in Later Medieval Provence: Archaism or Innovation? John Drendel Bargaining Power and Institutional Change: Seven Centuries of Italian Sharecropping Contracts, 821 to 1517 A.D. Francesco Galassi Market Integration A Test Case for Regional Market Integration? The Grain Trade between Malta and Sicily in the Fifteenth Century Mark Aloisio Capital Market and Central Place Function in Thirteenth-Century Ypres David Nicholas Thresholds for Market Integration in the Low Countries and England in the Fifteenth Century Richard W. Unger Long-Distance Trade and Markets Egyptian Specie Markets and the International Gold Crisis of the Fifteenth Century Ian Blanchard From Venice to the Tuat: Trans-Saharan Copper Trade and Francesco di Marco Datini of Prato Martin Malcolm Elbl The Borromei Bank Research Project Francesco Guidi Bruscoli and J. L. Bolton Regional and Local Markets Shops and Shopping in the Thirteenth Century: Three Texts Martha Carlin Movable/Immovable, What's in a Name?- The Case of Late Medieval Ghent Martha Howell Cultivation and Consumption: Medieval Lubeck's Gardens Charlotte Masemann