Author: George Unwin

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780656441532

Excerpt from Finance and Trade Under Edward III: By Members of the History School Some five or six years ago a plan was formed to illustrate a dozen or more different aspects of 14th century history by the publication of work done by graduates of the History School of Manchester University. The war has seriously hindered the realization of the project, and this volume represents merely an instalment of it. Apart from my own contributions, each of the studies here presented is based on a thesis prepared for the History Schools of 1911 and 1912. Their separate publication in advance of the rest may plead the justification of a certain unity of subject. They deal with various economic aspects of the reign of Edward III, and the writers, with one exception, were members not only in Professor Tout's honours class in the Early part of the reign of Edward III, but of my honours class in Economic History. It has thus fallen to my lot to advise their postgraduate researches and to edit this volume. The two articles on The Social Evolution of Mediaeval London and London Tradesmen and their Creditors, though falling somewhat outside the scope of the book as indicated by its title, have been included in the hope that they might supply a broader introduction to some of the special problems dealt with in the subsequent studies. As will perhaps be apparent to the critical reader, they were both originally prepared for oral delivery - the former as one of the Warburton Lectures of 1911 and the latter as a paper read before the Manchester University Historical Society in the following session. Of the remaining articles, that on The Estate of Merchants was the last to be written, and aimed, along with the Introduction, at providing a tentative survey of the reign as a whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.