The paper's thesis is that the chief causes for the well-known `industrial crisis' of the traditional English textile towns during the period c.1290 - c.1340 was not the emergence of supposedly superior, lower-cost rural competition, as is generally supposed, but rather a far-reaching economic...

This paper, a contribution to the 'proto-industrialisation' debate, examines the relative advantages of urban and rural locations for cloth manufacturing in later-medieval England and the Low Countries. From the 11th to the mid-14th century, when the English cloth trade began its seemingly...

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...