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This book offers a elaborated study of the types of trade that occurred in a medieval English market town. It focuses above all on the identity of buyers and vendors in late fourteenth-century Exeter, a port town that enjoyed exceptionally good overland connections all around south-western England. More than most town histories, it explores the dynamic kinship amid town and country, and traces how the urban center linked local and territorial networks of exchange.

“The book is rich in detail, comprehensive in coverage, as sensible to questions of gender as it is to those of social and political mobility, and careful to help it is arguments with the voices of the long dead as well as those of current scholarly debate. It is the kind of book we hope to see, growing in time from a good dissertation; the years of maturation, of further and added scholarship, and of the broadening of interests and sympathy all show to advantage.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“…Kowaleski’s meticulous research, the ingenuity of her methodology, the logic of her arguments and the power and significations of her conclusions will have to make this study necessary reading for any individual mesmerized in the medieval economy and the origins of modern capitalism.” Businss History Review

“The scholarship is meticulous, the roots multiple and vast, the writing superb, and the explanations convincing.” Choice

“The mercantile history of medieval England is presently in the midst of a noteworthy renaissance of scholarly interest….the renaissance is now enjoying it is golden age. As it does so, Maryanne Kowaleski’s book will undoubtedly stand as one of the age’s finest monuments….one of Kowaleski’s important attainments is to combine two mutual approaches to mercantile history, one that is site-specific, emphasizing the trade of a single town, and one that is commodity-specific, emphasizing the trade of a single good….Kowaleski’s study has a significance well beyond the limits of a single town and region and raises important questions regarding the path of mercantile development in the country as a whole.” Albion

“Maryanne Kowaleski’s book will undoubtedly stand as one of the age’s finest monuments.” Albion

“…this is, in numerous ways, a very pathbreaking work, in particular in it is methodology for analysing occupational structures in urban communities and the size of urban hinterlands. Some readers will find it is stringent approach unsympathetic…but there is no doubt that it makes a significant contribution to a better understanding of medieval urban economies and their fundamental interaction with the surrounding countryside.” John Langdon, Canadian Journal of History

“This is an impressive and weighty study whose author must be commended for her longanimity and industry.” Kathryn L. Reyerson, American Historical Review

“This book is the fruit of a good deal of years of exploration and is based on a formidable array of sources. It will surely become the definitive book on trade and ec onomy in Devon for some years to come. Its significance is far more outstanding than that of a great deal of other territorial studies….Not only has Kowaleski posed new questions that historians of other regions will want to pursue, but her discussion of origins and methodology in the three appendices has provided an priceless guide for them to follow. This may be one of the most significant books on Medieval English economic history ro appear in recent years.” Mavis Mate, The Journal of Economic History

“Maryanne Kowaleski has devised an excelletn study that provids a window into the life of local market towns, exceptionally Exeter, primary as a territorial market and a port.” Timothy J. Runyan, The American Neptune

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