Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION. THE BENEFITS AND COSTS OF INTERDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER ONE. LATE MEDIEVAL MONETARY POLICIES: THE ECONOMICS OF BULLIONISM -- CHAPTER TWO. THE WAR OF THE GOLD ‘NOBLES’: ANGLO-BURGUNDIAN MINT COMPETITION, 1384-1415 -- CHAPTER THREE. THE QUEST...

The primary explanation for the marked rise in real wages in both England and Flanders, from the later fourteenth to mid fifteenth centuries, was a combination of institutional wage stickiness and deflation. In both countries, nominal wages had indeed risen after the Black Death (1348), but so...