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Mobility to and from cities represents an essential aspect of urban development in Flanders (Belgium) during the second half of the Middle Ages (AD 1000 – AD 1500). The city of Ypres was situated in one of the core regions of medieval urbanisation in Europe. Nevertheless, many uncertainties about the movement of men, and especially women and childr...
During the early medieval period (5th–9th century CE), the North Sea coastal societies were involved in long distance maritime trade relations, which resulted in a pronounced mobility of individuals throughout the North Sea area. This work presents the first isotope data from human remains on diet and mobility from early medieval Belgian coastal po...
The oeuvre of Marc Boone (Ghent, 1955) has become standard reading for specialists of medieval European towns and cities, as well as for those interested in the history of state building - most notably that of the Burgundian polity. Honoring Ghent University’s venerable tradition of medieval studies begun by Henri Pirenne and building upon the work...
During the later Middle Ages, England was home to tens of thousands of people of foreign birth, urging the English royal government to consider issues of nationality and alien status. This study claims that the legal, administrative and fiscal framework for the rights and regulation of immigrants that was developed in response never created a strai...
This article explores the participation of immigrants, or people born outside the kingdom, in urban politics in later medieval England. It demonstrates that the nationality of these newcomers was of only secondary importance. What mattered most was whether immigrants’ economic and political interests aligned with those of the civic political elites...
At the end of the fifteenth century, the commercial centre of North-Western Europe shifted from the Flemish city of Bruges, which had been the area’s leading market since the beginning of the fourteenth century, to Antwerp, in Brabant. While the former metropolis had only ever functioned as a hub for European trade or even as a gateway for internat...
During the late medieval period, Bruges was one of the most international commercial and financial markets of Western Europe. What is often ignored, is that the merchants flocking to the city did not only bring a wide variety of commodities, but also of legal traditions with them. These visitors’ conceptions of commercial law were often fundamental...
This article focuses on the intersection between migration, gender and economic opportunity in later medieval England. Drawing on the returns of the alien subsidy, a direct tax imposed on the country’s alien residents during the second half of the fifteenth century, it argues that immigrant women encountered a medieval equivalent of the so-called ‘...
England’s Immigrants, 1330-1550 provides a comprehensive account of the identities, nationalities, occupations, families and experiences of first-generation immigrants to England during the later Middle Ages. It addresses both official policy and public responses to immigration in the age of the Black Death, the Hundred Years War and the early Tudo...
According to Immanuel Wallerstein, the sixteenth century saw the emergence of a capitalist world economy in which labor was organized on a global scale, and the production, distribution and use of goods and services were integrated across national boundaries. This article argues that, though exceptional, an integrated, hegemonic division of labor o...
This article reconstructs a crucial episode in the relationship between the English crown, its subjects and the kingdom’s immigrant population. It links the murder of about forty Flemings in London during the Peasants’ Revolt in June 1381 to the capital’s native cloth workers’ dissatisfaction with the government’s economic immigration policy. We ar...
During most of the late medieval period, the Flemish city of Bruges acted as the main commercial hub of north-western Europe. In the course of the fifteenth century, however, Bruges lost much of its allure as an economic metropolis. One of the most urgent challenges the urban authorities were facing was the navigability of the waterways in and arou...
This study focuses on how the English crown identified and categorized French-born people in the kingdom during the preliminaries and first stage of the Hundred Years War. Unlike the treatment of alien priories and nobles holding lands on both sides of the Channel, the attitude to laypeople became more positive as the period progressed. In particul...
During the late medieval period, Bruges acted as the prime hub of international trade in north-western Europe, with the town of Sluys as its outport. Trade along the Zwin, the waterway connecting the city to the sea, was subject to a series of tolls and a set of stringent and comprehensive staple restrictions, stipulating that all goods imported ha...
Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance, power and distinction. Yet, as the essays in this collection make clear, the term ‘luxury’ is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption, commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy, the Low Countries and...
In ‘The Political Side of the Coin’, Bart Lambert deals with the role of capital in the socio-political development of cities and regions in the late medieval Low Countries. He focuses on the Flemish city of Bruges which, because of its position as a hotspot for international trade and banking, could draw on capital markets that were far more devel...
The search for the origins of the process of denization in England has traditionally focused on the needs of merchants and
the context of international trade, and no credible explanation has been given for why denization emerged as a recognisable
Chancery form in the 1380s and 1390s. A new consideration of wartime treatment of aliens demonstrates t...
During the late medieval period, Sluys, in the county of Flanders, and the English town of Southampton were busy international ports and centres of princely and local taxation. Yet both places were also strongly dependent on the markets of Bruges and London, where most of the actual trade took place. This study investigates whether this lack of loc...
In 1445, Philip the Good appointed Bonnore Olivier as the Burgundian State’s first General Receiver of Extraordinary Revenues. The goal was to centralise a set of heterogeneous sources of income which so far had been collected by particular receivers and which only had their potential of gain in common. As such, the only remaining account of the Re...
Having taken over the role of the Hollanders and the Zeelanders in the wine transport from Southwestern France, Breton mariners flooded the Flemish port of Sluys during the second half of the fifteenth century. At the same time their presence in the international gateway market of Bruges, situated only twenty kilometers further down the Zwin waterw...
Throughout the fourteenth century, Edward III issued several letters of protection encouraging Flemish textile workers to establish their trade in England. During the centuries that followed, historians have disagreed about the newcomers' contribution to the development of the English drapery. Lacking in each debate were quantifiable data related t...
This article argues that, to do justice to the institutional context of international
trade in the later medieval Low Countries, a legal-historical study is
necessary. Instead of considering commercial exchange from the perspective
of mono-causal explanatory frameworks that assume the primacy of either
the state or the city, all institutions that h...
This contribution considers the spectacular rise of Bonnore Olivier, first as a Genoese merchant within the commercial setting of Bruges, the outstanding gateway market of the late medieval period, then within the financial administration of the Burgundian duke Philip the Good. Even though his life can be considered as a
variation on the theme of t...
Recent studies on how so-called modern states are run have demonstrated that fiscal levies constituted the essential resource in the genesis of the modern state in Mediaeval Europe. The increase in tax revenues and in the Mediaeval princes' financial resources proved crucial in the development of the States. Yet, this evolution was neither linear n...
During the second half of the fourteenth and the first half of the fifteenth century, it was particularly hazardous for medieval merchants to invest in government finance. The 'certainty of uncertainty' involved in dealing with princes proved disastrous for innumerable businesses, whether they were modest one-man firms or colossal 'super companies'...
