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The Commercialisation of English Society offers an interpretation
of social and economic change in England over five centuries. By
1500 English livelihoods depended more upon money and commercial
transactions than ever before; the institutional framework of
markets had been transformed and urban development was more
pronounced. These changes were not, however, caused by any
unilinear development of population, output or money supply. This
pioneering study examines both institutional and economic
transformation and the social changes that resulted and stresses
the limited importance of formal trading institutions for the
development of local trade. Commercial transition is throughout
analysed from a broader perspective that looks at the changing
power relations within medieval society (which might loosely be
described as feudal) and considers how these relations were
affected by such commercial development.
This is a study of one of England's principal cloth towns during
the late Middle Ages. It draws extensively upon unpublished records
in Colchester and elsewhere, and is the first history of a medieval
English town to analyse in conjunction the relationships between
overseas trade, urban development and changes in rural society.
First it describes Colchester in the earlier fourteenth century,
its trade, its agricultural setting and its form of government. The
book then shows how cloth-making grew in Colchester after the Black
Death and how the population increased until about 1414. The
implications of this for the government of the borough and for the
town's role in the local economy are discussed. The last section
shows that Colchester's growth was not sustained through the
fifteenth century, and examines some of the causal links between
economic contraction, institutional change in the borough and
agrarian depression in the surrounding countryside.
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