Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PART I. THE HISTORY OF THE GRAIN TRADE IN FRANCE -- CHAPTER I. MARKETS AND MARKET ORGANIZATION -- CHAPTER II. THE HISTORY OF THE PARISIAN MARKETS -- CHAPTER III. THE CHAMBRE D'ABONDANCE AT LYONS AND THE WHOLESALE MERCHANTS -- CHAPTER IV. LYONESE...

This volume presents a new history of Orsanmichele, covering the centuries before the Renaissance. It explores the Florentine grain market, the piazza of Orsanmichele and its loggias, and Orsanmichele s important confraternity and Madonnas during the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- PART I. THE STRUGGLE FOR FREE MARKETING 1900-10 -- INTRODUCTORY -- CHAPTER I. EARLY GRIEVANCES OF WESTERN GRAIN GROWERS -- CHAPTER II. THE BEGINNINGS OF GRAIN TRADE REGULATION -- CHAPTER III. THE BEGINNINGS OF GRAIN GROWERS' ORGANIZATION -- CHAPTER IV. THE...