Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This is the first book to describe the early English woollens' industry and its dominance of the trade in quality cloth across Europe by the mid-sixteenth century, as English trade was transformed from dependence on wool to value-added woollen cloth. It compares English and continental draperies, weighs the advantages of urban and rural production, and examines both quality and coarse cloths. Rural clothiers who made broadcloth to a consistent high quality at relatively low cost, Merchant Adventurers who enjoyed a trade monopoly with the Low Countries, and Antwerp's artisans who finished cloth to customers' needs all eventually combined to make English woollens unbeatable on the continent.

Wool industry --- Wool-growing industry --- Wool trade and industry --- Woolgrowing industry --- Sheep industry --- History --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1200-1499

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Textile industry --- Weavers --- Flemings --- Social integration --- Economic development --- History --- England --- Emigration and immigration --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1300-1399

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

"The wool trade was undoubtedly one of the most important elements of the British economy throughout the medieval period - even the seat occupied by the speaker of the House of lords rests on a woolsack. In 'The wealth of England' Susan Rose brings together the social, economic and political strands in the development of the wool trade and show how and why it became so important. The author looks at the lives of prominent wool-men; gentry who based their wealth on producing this commodity like the Stonors in the Chilterns, canny middlemen who rose to prominence in the City of London like Nicholas Brembre and Richard (Dick) Whittington, and men who acquired wealth and influence like William de la Pole of Hull. She examines how the wealth made by these and other wool-men transformed the appearance of the leading centres of the trade with magnificent churches and other buildings. The export of wool also gave England links with Italian trading cities at the very time that the Renaissance was transforming cultural life. The complex operation of the trade is also explained with the role of the Staple at Calais to the fore leading to a discussion on the way the policy of English kings, especially in the fourteenth century, was heavily influenced by trade in this one commodity. No other book has treated this subject holistically with its influence on the course of English history made plain."--Page 4 of cover.

Wool industry --- Wool-growing industry --- Wool trade and industry --- Woolgrowing industry --- Sheep industry --- History --- E-books --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1200-1499 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Industria textil --- Lana --- Política --- Comercio --- Industria --- Inglaterra --- Situación económica --- Historia --- Politica y gobierno

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in early-nineteenth-century British socialism. Against scholarly interpretations which have identified Owenite socialists as anti-religious or as imitating Christianity, this book argues that Owenites offer a re-conception of the nature of ‘religion’ as advanced through knowledge of the natural and social world, as a prospective source of solidarity which could serve as the unifying bond for communities, and as constituted by ethical conduct. It shows how this re-conception was formed through a sincere and considered reflection upon the problem of religious truth and was shaped by the particular religious context of early-nineteenth-century Britain. It then demonstrates the importance of this reimagination of religion to their understanding of socialism. Their religious interests were not an eccentric adornment to their socialism, an outdated residue yet to be shed and encumbering the development of a mature socialism, or merely instrumental to their temporal goals. Instead, Owenite ambitions of religious reform were grounded in the philosophical preoccupations which animated their socialism. Edward Lucas completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford, UK and now works for the UK government.

Theory of knowledge --- Religious studies --- Politics --- World history --- History --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Eastern Europe --- intellectuele ontwikkeling --- religie --- geschiedenis --- politiek --- sociale geschiedenis --- wereldpolitiek --- Europese geschiedenis --- Great Britain—History. --- Religion—History. --- Social history. --- Intellectual life—History. --- World politics. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- History of Religion. --- Social History. --- History of Ideas. --- Political History.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years. Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge's sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the community. Cutting across disciplines, from economic and business history to entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies, this outstanding volume presents an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism. A companion book, The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Sources Volume, replacing the previous incomplete and inaccurate transcription by the Record Commission of 1818, is also now available from Bristol University Press.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1200-1499 --- Land use --- Industries --- Social responsibility of business --- Social entrepreneurship --- Entrepreneurship --- Business --- Corporate accountability --- Corporate responsibility --- Corporate social responsibility --- Corporations --- CSR (Corporate social responsibility) --- Social responsibility, Corporate --- Social responsibility of industry --- Business ethics --- Issues management --- Industrial production --- Industry --- Economics --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Social aspects --- Social responsibility --- Cambridge (England) --- Cambridge (Cambridgeshire) --- Jianqiao (England) --- Economic conditions. --- E-books --- Industries, Primitive