Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300-1525
Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300-1525
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USDThis is a study of one of England's principal cloth towns during the late Middle Ages. It draws extensively upon unpublished records in Colchester and elsewhere, and is the first history of a medieval English town to analyse in conjunction the relationships between overseas trade, urban development and changes in rural society. First it describes Colchester in the earlier fourteenth century, its trade, its agricultural setting and its form of government. The book then shows how cloth-making grew in Colchester after the Black Death and how the population increased until about 1414. The implications of this for the government of the borough and for the town's role in the local economy are discussed. The last section shows that Colchester's growth was not sustained through the fifteenth century, and examines some of the causal links between economic contraction, institutional change in the borough and agrarian depression in the surrounding countryside.
Product details
September 2008Paperback
9780521073158
324 pages
235 × 158 × 18 mm
0.48kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Rusticity, 1300–49:
- 1 Urban economy
- 2. Urban liberty
- 3. Food supplies Survey, 1300–49
- Part II. Growth, 1350–1414:
- 4. Colchester cloth and its markets
- 5. Industry
- 6. Population
- 7. Credit and wealth
- 8. Government
- 9. Economic regulation
- 10. Town and country Survey, 1350–1414
- Part III. Change and Decay, 1415–1525:
- 11. Colchester cloth and its markets
- 12. Industry
- 13. Population
- 14. Credit and wealth
- 15. Government
- 16. Economic regulation
- 17. Town and country Survey, 1415–1525.
