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Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the 'Nouvelles Draperies'

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002

This paper seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the...

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Spanish Merino Wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: An Industrial Transformation in the Late-Medieval Low Countries

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper, a much revised version of an earlier paper (with different tables), seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704802

Hanseatic Commerce in Textiles from the Low Countries and England during the Later Middle Ages:

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

era when the ï¿½draperiesï¿½ or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly … the Low Countries and England to re-orient their export-oriented cloth production more and more towards high-priced ultra … the Flemish composite price index: 1351-1550; (10) Prices of various Brabantine woollen cloths, compared to the Brabant …

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Hanseatic commerce in textiles from the Low Countries and England during the Later Middle Ages: changing trends in textiles, markets, prices, and values, 1290 - 1570

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

era when the ‘draperies’ or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly … transaction costs that, in turn, had three major consequences for the Low Countries’ and England’s textile-based economies: (1) to … Countries and England to re-orient their export-oriented cloth production more and more towards high-priced ultra-luxury quality …

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Builders' Wages in Southern England and the Southern Low Countries, 1346 -1500:A Comparative Study of Trends in and Levels of Real Incomes

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

real wages for building craftsmen and their journeymenlabourers in southern England, Flanders, and Brabant, in the late …. Using the working papers for Phelps Brown & Hopkins' very famous price and real-wage indexes for England (1264-1954), which … Antwerp region (1400-1700), with annual values in pence groot Brabant (but still converted into index numbers); and I have …

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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001

The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...

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Spanish Merino wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: an industrial transformation in the late-medieval Low Countries

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This article seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the 'nouvelles draperies' chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004705

South German silver, European textiles, and Venetian trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: a non-Mercantilist approach to the balance of payments problem, in Relazione economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico, seccoli XIII - XVIII, ed. Simonetta Cavaciocchi

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

, via new transcontinental trading routes from Venice through Germany to the Brabant Fairs, based on a tripod of English … an alternative explanation: how England’s new Levant Company and the English cloth industries so successfully gained a …

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The Monetary Origins of the Price Revolution' Before the Influx of Spanish-American Treasure: the South German Silver-Copper Trades, Merchant-Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1540

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1999

This paper seeks to provide a new and chiefly monetary explanation for the origins of the sixteenth-century era of sustained inflation (c.1520 - c.1640) commonly known as the Price Revolution'; and in particular it provides an answer to the question: not, as traditionally posed, why did the...

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Energy transitions in Europe: 1600-2000

Kander, Astrid; Malanima, Paolo; Warde, Paul - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2008

(different sources of energy) and compares transitions across countries, exemplified by the wood to coal transition in England …

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