The essays in this volume look at the mechanics of debt, the legal process, and its economics in early medieval England. Beneath the elevated plane of high poli

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The eleven articles in this volume examine controversial subjects of central importance to medieval economic historians. Topics include the relative roles playe

In the years covered by this volume, 1250-1450, the production patterns, in both the European precious and base metal industries, first established in the twelf

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