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This article, a contribution to the ‘proto-industrialisation’ debate, examines the relative advantages of urban and rural locations for cloth manufacturing in later-medieval England and the Low Countries. From the 11th to the mid-14th century, when the English cloth trade began its seemingly...
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interregional level. We found that regional variations in land prices within Brabant and Flanders can for a large part be explained …
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An influential literature in early modern economic history uses “distance from” as an instrumental or a control variable. I show that “distance from Wittenberg” and “distance from Mainz,” two prominent instruments for the adoption of Protestantism and printing technology, have...
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early nineteenth centuries – such as real wages, labor productivity in agriculture, and urbanization – also fails to confirm …
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The Anti-Red Shift -- to the Dark Side: Changes in the Colour Patterns and Market Values of Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300 - 1550 This study documents, though it cannot fully explain, the striking shift in the spectrum of colour patterns in woollen textiles, from those of the Black Death era in...
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of Flanders and Mechelen (Rooslaken) in the neighbouring duchy of Brabant. Table 1 provides the technical features of the … light-weight, coarse, relatively cheap worsted-type says (from the leading producer, Hondschoote, in Flanders); and … in sixteenth-century Flanders (including Hondschoote) and England. Table 2 presents the prices, in pounds groot Flemish …
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real wages for building craftsmen and their journeymen-labourers in southern England, Flanders, and Brabant, in the late … Antwerp region (1400-1700), with annual values in pence groot Brabant (but still converted into index numbers); and I have … produced a similar price index for Flanders (1348-1500), with annual values in pence groot Flemish. All three baskets have very …
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the cross-Channel Low Countries (Flanders), did not in fact continually rise as this model predicts, the focus of this … known Phelps Brown & Hopkins ‘basket of consumables’ index; and for Flanders, it is measured by one that I have constructed … 1360s. In the later 14th century, however, first England and then Flanders experienced an equally dramatic deflation, one …
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Over the last 10 years or so there has been a resurgence of interest in the English king Richard III, especially after his remains are found in 2012 after being lost or missing for centuries. Prior to this, there are many publications, reports, and documentaries alluding to a “smear”...
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