IMC 2017: Sessions
Session 635: 14th-Century England, II: Property Markets in Medieval England - Enterprise and Urban Development
Tuesday 4 July 2017, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Society for 14th-Century Studies |
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Organiser: | Gwilym Dodd, Department of History, University of Nottingham |
Moderator/Chair: | Richard Holt, Institutt for historie og religionsvitenskap, Universitetet i Tromsø - Norges Arktiske Universitetet |
Paper 635-a | Commercialisation and Property Speculation in Medieval Cambridge (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Law |
Paper 635-b | Enterprise and Urban Development in Medieval Hull (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Law |
Paper 635-c | Property Investors in Late Medieval London (Language: English) Index terms: Administration, Economics - Trade, Economics - Urban, Law |
Abstract | Property investment is of great contemporary concern, yet relatively little attention has been paid to the historic origins of the property market or its place in the commercialisation of the English economy. Three locations are compared across c. 1270-c. 1450 - the northern port of Hull, the university town of Cambridge and the trade hubs of the Home Counties and East Anglia. Statistical techniques reveal similarities between the medieval and modern property markets. Biographies of investors demonstrate that commercialisation embraced both property and commodity markets. Investment strategies of enterprising individuals and institutions are revealed, including monarchs, monks, and urban professionals. |