Credit and Trade in Later Medieval England, 1353-1532

• Main Author: Goddard, Richard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
• Subjects: Finance.; Trade.; Business.; Commerce.; Finance > History.; Accounting.; Great Britain > History.; Europe > History—476-1492.; Social history.; Financial History.; Financial Accounting.; History of Medieval Europe.; Social History.; History of Britain and Ireland.

This book challenges the notion that economic crises are modern phenomena through its exploration of the tumultuous ‘credit-crunch’ of the later Middle Ages. It illustrates clearly how influences such as the Black Death, inter-European warfare, climate change and a bullion famine occasioned severe a...