Medieval Market Morality: Life, Law and Ethics in the English Marketplace, 1200-1500

by James Davis

Book Overview

This important new study examines the market trade of medieval England from a new perspective, by providing a wide-ranging critique of the moral and legal imperatives that underpinned retail trade. James Davis shows how market-goers were influenced not only by practical and economic considerations of price, quality, supply and demand, but also by the moral and cultural environment within which such deals were conducted. This book draws on a broad...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107633125
• ISBN13: 9781107633124
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"