13 June 2001
Professor John H. Munro
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario
CANADA M5S 3G7
1-416-978-4552
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/
* - indicates a refereed publication.
A. MONOGRAPHS, BOOKS
* John Munro, Wool, Cloth and Gold: The Struggle for Bullion in Anglo-Burgundian Trade, ca. 1340-1478 (Brussels: Editions de l'université de Bruxelles; and Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973). Pp. xii + 242.
Eddy H. G. Van Cauwenberghe, Rainer Metz, Franz Irisgler, and John Munro, Coinage in the Low Countries (14th - 18th Centuries), Vol. I: Antwerp - Bruges - Brussels - Ghent (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1988). Pp 292.
Textiles of the Low Countries in European Economic History, ed. Erik Aerts and John Munro, Studies in Social and Economic History, Vol. 19 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990). Pp. 124.
* Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992). Pp. xvi + 312.
* Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994). Pp. xvi + 326.
B. ARTICLES IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS AND ESSAYS IN BOOKS (AND COLLECTED STUDIES)
* 1. 'Bruges and the Abortive Staple in English Cloth: An Incident in the Shift of Commerce from Bruges to Antwerp in the Late Fifteenth Century', Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire/Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis, 44 (1966), 1137-59; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 2. 'The Costs of Anglo-Burgundian Interdependence,' Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire/Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis, 46 (1968), 1128-38.
* 3. 'An Economic Aspect of the Collapse of the Anglo-Burgundian Alliance, 1428-1442,' English Historical Review, 85 (1970), 225-44; reprinted in John Munro, Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992).
* 4. ' 'An Aspect of Medieval Public Finance: The Profits of Counterfeiting in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries,' Revue belge de numismatique et de sigillographie, 118 (1972), 127-48; reprinted in John Munro, Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992).
[Part I of a two-part article, with Pierre Cockshaw, entitled 'Countrefaçons et imitations de monnaies au XVe siècle,' pp. 127-63.]
* 5. 'The Weber Thesis Revisited - and Revindicated?' Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 51 (1973), 381-91. [Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis.]
* 6. 'Billon - Billoen - Billio: From Bullion to Base Coinage,' Belgisch tijdschrift voor filologie en geschiedenis/ Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 52 (1974), 293-305; reprinted in John Munro, Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992).
7. 'Money and Coinage of the Age of Erasmus,' in Sir Roger Mynors, Douglas Thomson, and Wallace Ferguson, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 1: Letters 1 to 151, A.D. 1484 - 1500 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974), pp. 311-48. Also in this volume: Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus.
8. 'The Purchasing Power of Coins and of Wages in the Low Countries and England, 1500 - 1514,' in Sir Roger Mynors, Douglas Thomson, and Wallace Ferguson, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 2: Letters 142 to 297, A.D. 1501 - 1514 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975), pp. 307-45. Also in this volume: Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus.
9. Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Sir Roger Mynors, Douglas Thomson, and James McConica, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 3: Letters 298 to 445, A.D. 1514 to 1516 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976).
10. Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Sir Roger Mynors, Douglas Thomson, and James McConica, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 4: Letters 446 to 593, A.D. 1516 to 1517 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977).
* 11. 'Industrial Protectionism in Medieval Flanders: Urban or National?' in Harry Miskimin, David Herlihy, and A. L. Udovitch, eds., The Medieval City (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977), pp. 229-68; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 12. 'Wool-Price Schedules and the Qualities of English Wools in the Later Middle Ages, ca. 1270 - 1499,' Textile History, 9 (1978), 118-69; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 13. 'The 1357 Wool-Price Schedule and the Decline of Yorkshire Wool Values,' Textile History, 10 (1979), 211-19; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 14. 'Bullionism and the Bill of Exchange in England, 1272-1663: A Study in Monetary Management and Popular Prejudice,' in The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies of the University of California (Fredi Chiappelli, director), ed., The Dawn of Modern Banking (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 169-239; reprinted in John Munro, Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992).
15. 'Monetary Contraction and Industrial Change in the Late-Medieval Low Countries, 1335 - 1500,' in Nicholas Mayhew, ed., Coinage in the Low Countries, 880 - 1500: The Third Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History British Archeological Reports, International Series No. 54 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1979), pp. 95-161.
16. Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Sir Roger Mynors, Douglas Thomson, and Peter Bietenholz, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 5: Letters 594 to 841, A.D. 1517 to 1518 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1979).
* 17. 'Mint Policies, Ratios, and Outputs in England and the Low Countries, 1335-1420: Some Reflections on New Data,' The Numismatic Chronicle, 141 (1981), 71-116. [formerly listed as: 8th series, Vol. I]; reprinted in John Munro, Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992).
18. Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Sir Roger Mynors, Douglas Thomson, and Peter Bietenholz, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 6: Letters 842 to 992, A.D. 1518 to 1519 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1982).
* 19. 'Medieval Monetary Problems: Bimetallism and Bullionism,' Journal of Economic History, 43 (March 1983), 294-98.
* 20. 'Economic Depression and the Arts in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries,' Renaissance and Reformation, 19 (1983), 235-50; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 21. 'The Medieval Scarlet and the Economics of Sartorial Splendour,' in Negley B. Harte and Kenneth G. Ponting, eds., Cloth and Clothing in Medieval Europe: Essays in Memory of Professor E. M. Carus-Wilson, Pasold Studies in Textile History No. 2 (London: The Pasold Research Fund and Heinemann Educational Books, 1983), pp. 13-70; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 22. 'Bullion Flows and Monetary Contraction in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries,' in John F. Richards, ed., Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 1983), pp. 97-158; reprinted in John Munro, Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992).
23. 'Monnayage, monnaies de compte, et mutations monétaires au Brabant à la fin du moyen âge,' in John Day, ed., Études d'histoire monétaire, XIIe - XIXe siècles, Études de l'Université de Paris VII et du Centre National des Lettres (Lille: Presses Universitaires de Lille, 1984), pp. 263-94; reprinted in John Munro, Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992).
24. 'Mint Outputs, Money, and Prices in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries,' in Eddy Van Cauwenberghe and Franz Irsigler, eds., Münzprägung, Geldumlauf und Wechselkurse/ Minting, Monetary Circulation and Exchange Rates, Trierer Historische Forschungen, 7: Akten des 8th International Economic History Congress, Section C-7, Budapest 1982 (Trier: University Press, 1984), pp. 31-122.
25. 'Hemp,' in Joseph R. Strayer, et al., eds., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/MacMillan, 1982-88), Vol. 6: Grosseteste - Italian Literature (New York, 1985), pp. 153-54.
26. 'Linen,' in Joseph R. Strayer, et al., eds., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/MacMillan, 1982-88), Vol. 7: Italian Renaissance - Mabinogi (New York, 1986), 584-86.
27. 'Political Muscle in an Age of Monetary Famine: A Review,' in Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 64 (1986), 741-46.
28. Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Sir Roger Mynors, Douglas Thomson, and Peter Bietenholz, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 7: Letters 993 to 1121, A.D. 1519 to 1520 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987).
29. 'Money and Coinage of the Age of Erasmus': Appendix A, on 'The Coinage of the Burgundian-Hapsburg Netherlands, Before and After 1521'; Appendix B: 'Official Coinage Rates: February and August 1521,' in Sir Roger Mynors, Douglas Thomson, and Peter Bietenholz, eds., The Collected Works of Erasmus: Correspondence, Vol. 8: Letters 1122 to 1251, A.D. 1520 to 1521 (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1988), pp. 347-50. Also in this volume: Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus.
30. 'Scarlet,' in Joseph R. Strayer, et al., eds., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/MacMillan, 1982-88), Vol. 11: Scandinavian Languages to Textiles, Islamic (New York, 1988), pp. 36-37.
31. 'Silk,' in Joseph R. Strayer, et al., eds, Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/MacMillan, 1982-88), Vol. 11: Scandinavian Languages to Textiles, Islamic (New York, 1988), pp. 293-96.
32. 'Textile Technology,' in Joseph R. Strayer, et al., eds., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/MacMillan, 1982-88), Vol. 11: Scandinavian Languages to Textiles, Islamic (New York, 1988), pp. 693-711; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
33. 'Textile Workers,' in Joseph R. Strayer, et al., eds., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons/MacMillan, 1982-88), Vol. 11: Scandinavian Languages to Textiles, Islamic (New York, 1988), pp. 711-15; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 34. 'Deflation and the Petty Coinage Problem in the Late-Medieval Economy: The Case of Flanders, 1334 - 1484,' Explorations in Economic History, 25 (October 1988), 387-423; reprinted in John Munro, Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350 - 1500, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 355 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1992).
* 35. 'Petty Coinage in the Economy of Late-Medieval Flanders: Some Social Considerations of Public Minting,' in Eddy H. G. Van Cauwenberghe, ed, Precious Metals, Coinage and the Changes of Monetary Structures in Latin-America, Europe and Asia: Late Middle Ages - Early Modern Times, Studies in Social and Economic History, Vol.2 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1989), pp. 25 - 56.
36. Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Sir Roger Mynors and James Estes, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 9: Letters 1252 to 1355, A.D. 1522 to 1523 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989).
37. 'Urban Regulation and Monopolistic Competition in the Textile Industries of the Late-Medieval Low Countries,' in Erik Aerts and John Munro, eds., Textiles of the Low Countries in European Economic History, Studies in Social and Economic History, Vol. 19 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1990), pp. 41 - 52; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 38. 'Industrial Transformations in the North-West European Textile Trades, c. 1290 - c. 1340: Economic Progress or Economic Crisis?' in Bruce M. S. Campbell, ed., Before the Black Death: Studies in the 'Crisis' of the Early Fourteenth Century (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1991), pp. 110 - 48. Reprinted by Manchester University Press in a paper-back edition in 1992; and reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 39. 'Die Anfänge der Übertragbarkeit: einige Kreditinnovationen im englisch-flämischen Handel des Spätmittelalters (1360 - 1540),' in Michael North, ed., Kredit im spätmittelalterlichen und frühneuzeitlichen Europa, in Quellen und Darstellungen zur hansischen Geschichte, vol. 37 (Cologne-Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 1991), pp. 39 - 69.
40. 'The International Law Merchant and the Evolution of Negotiable Credit in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries,' in Dino Puncuh, ed., Banchi pubblici, banchi privati e monti di pietà nell'Europa preindustriale: amministrazione, tecniche operative e ruoli economici, Atti della Società Ligure di Storia Patria, Nouva Serie, Vol. XXXI (Genoa: Società Ligure di Storia Patria, 1991), pp. 49 - 80; reprinted in John Munro, Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Essays in the Economic History of Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, Variorum Collected Studies series CS 442 (Aldershot, Hampshire; and Brookfield, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 1994).
* 41. 'The Central European Mining Boom, Mint Outputs, and Prices in the Low Countries and England, 1450 - 1550,' in Eddy H.G. Van Cauwenberghe, ed., Money, Coins, and Commerce: Essays in the Monetary History of Asia and Europe (From Antiquity to Modern Times), Studies in Social and Economic History, Vol. 2 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1991), pp. 119 - 83.
42. Footnotes and headnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Sir Roger Mynors, Alexander Dalzell, and James Estes, eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 10: Letters 1356 to 1534, A.D. 1523 to 1524 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992), pp. xxi, 515.
43. Footnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Alexander Dalzell and Charles G. Nauert, Jr., eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 11: Letters 1535 - 1657, A.D. 1525 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994), pp. xxiii, 476.
* 44. 'Patterns of Trade, Money, and Credit,' in James Tracy, Thomas Brady Jr., and Heiko Oberman, eds., Handbook of European History in the Later Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 - 1600, Vol. I: Structures and Assertions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994), pp. 147-95.
* 45. 'The Coinages of Renaissance Europe, in 1500,' in James Tracy, Thomas Brady Jr., and Heiko Oberman, eds., Handbook of European History in the Later Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 - 1600, Vol. I: Structures and Assertions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994), pp. 671-78.
* 46. 'Industrial Entrepreneurship in the Late-Medieval Low Countries: Urban Draperies, Fullers, and the Art of Survival,' in Paul Klep and Eddy Van Cauwenberghe, eds., Entrepreneurship and the Transformation of the Economy (10th - 20th Centuries): Essays in Honour of Herman Van der Wee (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1994), pp. 377-88.
47. 'Urban Wage Structures in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries: Work-Time and Seasonal Wages,' in Ian Blanchard, ed., Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries, Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte Beiheft series, no. 116 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994), pp. 65-78.
48. 'Abwertung' [Debasement], 'Aufwertung' [Revaluation-Renforcement], 'Bullionismus' [Bullionism], 'Diskont' [Discounting], 'Gold-Silber-Relation' [Bimetallic Mint Ratios], 'Greschamsches Gesetz' [Gresham's Law], 'Inhaber-Klausel' [Order Clause], 'Inhaber-Schuldschein' [Bill Obligatory], 'Instrumentum ex Causa Cambii,' 'Münzkosten' [Brassage], 'Schlagschatz' [Seigniorage], 'Wechsel' [Bill of Exchange], in Michael North, ed., Von Aktie bis Zoll: Ein historisches Lexikon des Geldes (Munich: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1995), pp. 15-16, 26, 66-67, 85-87, 142-4, 146-47, 171-72, 172-74, 174-75, 263, 357, 413-18.
49. 'Textiles,' in William W. Kibler, Grover Zinn, John Bell Henneman, Lawrence Earp, and William Clark, ed., The Garland Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages, Vol. II: Medieval France: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Garland Press, 1995), pp. 903-05.
* 50. 'Anglo-Flemish Competition in the International Cloth Trade, 1340 - 1520,' Publication du centre européen d'études bourguigonnes, 35 (1995), 37-60 [Rencontres d'Oxford (septembre 1994): L'Angleterre et les pays bas bourguignonnes: relations et comparaisons, XVe - XVIe siècle, ed. Jean- Marie Cauchies.]
* 51. 'Varieties of Medieval Latinity, Section FJ: Textiles,' in Frank A. C. Mantello and A. George Rigg, eds., Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1996), pp. 474-84.
* 52. 'The Origins of the English 'New Draperies': The Resurrection of an Old Flemish Industry, 1270 - 1570,' in Negley B. Harte, ed., The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300 - 1800, Pasold Studies in Textile History no. 10 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 35-127.
53. 'Crisis and Change in the Later Medieval English Economy,' Journal of Economic History, 58:1 (March 1998), 215-19. A review article based on Richard Britnell and John Hatcher, eds., Progress and Problems in Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Edward Miller (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996).
54. 'Cloth Manufacture and Trade,' in Paul Sarmach, M. Teresa Tavormina, and Joel Rosenthal eds., Medieval England: An Encyclopedia (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998), pp. 194-97.
55. 'Precious Metals and the Origins of the Price Revolution Reconsidered: The Conjuncture of Monetary and Real Forces in the European Inflation of the Early to Mid-Sixteenth Century,' in Clara Eugenia Núñez, ed., Monetary History in Global Perspective, 1500 - 1808, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Economic History Congress at Madrid, August 1998 (Seville, 1998), pp. 35-50.
* 56. 'Textiles as Articles of Consumption in Flemish Towns, 1330 - 1575,' Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis, 81:1-3 (1998), 275-88. With a Dutch summary. (1)
* 57. 'The Symbiosis of Towns and Textiles: Urban Institutions and the Changing Fortunes of Cloth Manufacturing in the Low Countries and England, 1270 -1570,' The Journal of Early Modern History: Contacts, Comparisons, Contrasts, 3:1 (February: 1999), 1-74.
* 58. 'The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns, 1290 - 1330,' Thirteenth-Century England: VII, ed. Michael Prestwich, Richard Britnell, and Robin Frame (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Academic Press, 1999), pp. 103-41.
* 59. 'The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with the Mediterranean Basin, 1200-1600: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Comparative Advantages in Overland and Maritime Trade Routes', International Journal of Maritime History, 11:2 (Dec. 1999), 1 - 30.
* 60. 'English "Backwardness" and Financial Innovations in Commerce with the Low Countries, 14th to 16th centuries,' in Peter Stabel, Bruno Blondé, and Anke Greve, eds., International Trade in the Low Countries (14th - 16th Centuries): Merchants, Organisation, Infrastructure, Studies in Urban, Social, Economic, and Political History of the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries (Marc Boone, general editor), no. 10 (Leuven-Apeldoorn: Garant, 2000), pp. 105-67.
* 61. 'A Maze of Medieval Monetary Metrology: Determining Mint Weights in Flanders, France and England from the Economics of Counterfeiting, 1388 - 1469', The Journal of European Economic History, 29:1 (Spring 2000), 173-99.
* 63. 'The "New Institutional Economics" and the Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: the Textile Trades, Warfare, and Transaction Costs', Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 88:1 (2001), 1 - 47. This is a revised and expanded version of the preceding conference paper publication, with a new conclusion.
In Press:
64. Footnotes on coinage, monetary, financial, and numismatic topics in the correspondence of Erasmus, in Alexander Dalzell and Charles G. Nauert, Jr., eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 12: Letters 1658 - 1801, A.D. 1526-27 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), forthcoming 2001or 2002.
* 65. 'Money, Wages, and Real Incomes in the Age of Erasmus: The Purchasing Power of Coins and of Building Craftsmen's Wages in England and the Southern Low Countries, 1500 - 1540', in Alexander Dalzell and Charles G. Nauert, Jr., eds., The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 12: Letters 1658 - 1801, A.D. 1526-27 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), forthcoming 2001 or 2002.
* 66. 'Medieval Woollens: Textiles, Textile Technology, and Industrial Organization, c. 1000 - 1500', in David Jenkins, ed., The Cambridge History of Western Textiles (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York). forthcoming 2002
* 67. 'The West European Woollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500,' in David Jenkins, ed., The Cambridge History of Western Textiles (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge and New York). forthcoming 2002.
68. 'The Monetary Origins of the 'Price Revolution' Before the Influx of Spanish-American Treasure: The South German Silver-Copper Trades, Merchant-Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1540', in Dennis Flynn, ed., Monetary History in Global Perspective, 1500 - 1808, Variorum Series: An Expanding World: The European Impact on World History, 1450 - 1800 (London: Ashgate Publishing), forthcoming.
69. 'Flemish Woollens and Hanseatic Commerce during the Later Middle Ages: Changing Trends in Markets and Cloth Prices, 1290 - 1550,' in Rolf-Hammel Kiesow and Thomas Rahlf, eds., Wirtschaftlichen Wechsellagen im hansisischen Wirtschaftsraum 1300-1800, vol. I: Die Indikatorqualität historisch - ökonomischer Zeitreihen: Ein Werkstattbericht (Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Böhlau-Verlag), forthcoming.
* 70. 'Gresham's Law', in Joel Mokyr, et al, eds., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Oxford University Press, New York: forthcoming).
C. BOOK REVIEWS IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
1. Herman Van der Wee, The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy, Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries, 3 Vols. (1963), reviewed in The Journal of Economic History, 25 (1965): 302-04.
2. E. B. Fryde, The Wool Accounts of William de la Pole, reviewed in Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 45 (1967): 1078-9.
3. A. R. Lewis, Emerging Medieval Europe, A.D. 400-1000, reviewed in Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 47 (1969): 137-40.
4. David Landes, The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present (1969), reviewed in The Canadian Historical Review, 51 (1970): 72-75.
5. Peter Spufford, Monetary Problems and Policies in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1433-1496 (1970), reviewed in The Journal of European Economic History, 1 (1972): 536-40.
6. John Bell Henneman, Royal Taxation in Fourteenth-Century France: The Development of War-Financing, 1322-1356, reviewed in The Canadian Historical Review, 54 (1973): 469-70.
7. H.P.R. Finberg, ed. The Agrarian History of England and Wales, Vol. I, Part 2: A.D. 43-1042, reviewed in The Canadian Historical Review, 55 (1974): 459-61.
8. Ralph Davis, The Rise of the Atlantic Economies (1973), reviewed in The Canadian Historical Review, 56 (1975): 237-39.
9. Edmund King, Peterborough Abbey, 1086-1310: A Study in the Land Market (1975), reviewed in The Journal of Economic History, 36 (1976): 767.
10. B. H. Slicher Van Bath et al., eds., Acta Historiae Neerlandicae (Studies in the History of the Netherlands), 6 (1973), reviewed in Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 55 (1977): 327-9.
11. Maureen Mazzaoui, The Italian Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600 (1981), reviewed in Business History Review, 56 (Autumn 1982): 487-88.
12. Terence H. Lloyd, Alien Merchants in England in the High Middle Ages (1982), reviewed in the American Historical Review, 88 (1983): 661.
13. Artur Attman, The Bullion Flow Between Europe and the East, 1000-1750 (1981), reviewed in The Journal of Economic History, 43 (Sept. 1983): 748-49.
14. Kathryn Reyerson, Business, Banking, and Finance in Medieval Montpellier (1985), reviewed in The Canadian Journal of History, 21 (Dec. 1986): 411-13.
15. Chandra Mukerji, From Graven Images: Patterns of Modern Materialism (1983), reviewed in The Journal of Economic History, 46 (December 1986): 1044 - 46.
16. Harry Miskimin, Money and Power in Fifteenth-Century France (1984), reviewed in Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, 64 (1986): 741 - 46.
17. James D. Tracy, A Financial Revolution in the Habsburg Netherlands: Renten and Renteniers in the County of Holland, 1515-1565 (1985), in The American Historical Review, 92 (April 1987): 434 - 35.
18. Raymond Goldsmith, Premodern Financial Systems: A Historical Comparative Study (1987), reviewed in The Journal of Economic History, 48 (September 1988): 807 - 09.
19. Peter Spufford, Handbook of Medieval Exchange (1986), reviewed in Speculum: Journal of Medieval Studies, 63 (October 1988): 998 - 1000.
20. Martha C. Howell, Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (1986), reviewed in The Journal of Modern History, 60 (December 1988): 735 - 37.
21. Terence Lloyd, England and the German Hanse: A Study of Their Trade and Diplomacy (1991), reviewed in The American Historical Review, 98 (Oct. 1993): 1233-34.
22. John J. McCusker and Cora Gravesteijn, The Beginnings of Commercial and Financial Journalism: The Commodity Price Currents, Exchange Rate Currents, and Money Currents of Early Modern Europe (1991), reviewed in The American Historical Review, 99 (April 1994): 544.
23. Elizabeth Gemmill and Nicholas Mayhew, Changing Values in Medieval Scotland: A Study of Prices, Money, and Weights and Measures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), reviewed in Albion: Journal of British Studies, 28:3 (Fall 1996): 542-44.
24. Richard Britnell and John Hatcher, eds., Progress and Problems in Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Edward Miller (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996), reviewed in Journal of Economic History, 58:1 (March 1998): 215-19.
25. David Jacoby, Trade, Commodities, and Shipping in the Medieval Mediterranean ,Variorum Collected Studies Series CS572 (Aldershot, UK: Variorum 1997; dist. Brookfield, Vt.: Ashgate Publishing), reviewed in The International History Review, 21:1 (March 1999): 17-19.
26. David Hackett Fischer, The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), reviewed for EH.Net Review <ehreview@eh.net>, 24 February 1999.
27. Jean Favier, Gold and Spices: the Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages, trans. Caroline Higgitt (London and New York: Holmes & Meier, 1998), reviewed for The International History Review, 21:4 (December 1999), 976-78.
28. S. M. H. Bozorgnia, The Role of Precious Metals in European Economic Development from Roman Times to the Eve of the Industrial Revolution, Contributions in Economics and Economic History no. 192 (Westport, Connecticut, and London: Greenwood Press, 1998), reviewed for Journal of Economic History, 59:4 (December 1999), 1090-91.
D. SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES
1. 'Bruges and the Abortive Staple in English Cloth: An Incident in the Shift of Commerce from Bruges to Antwerp in the Late Fifteenth Century.'
Paper delivered to the Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting, June 1965, at the University of British Columbia.
2. 'The Transformation of Flemish Cloth Production, c. 1270 - c. 1400: The Responses to Changing Factor Costs and Market Demand.'
Paper delivered to the Postgraduate Workshop in Economic History of the Centrum voor Economische Studiën of the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven (Louvain, Belgium) on 12 March 1971 (and published by this institute in mimeographed form as Report No. 7103 of the Centrum voor Economische Studiën).
This paper was subsequently delivered also to the Seminarie voor Streeks- en Agrarische Geschiedenis of the Rikjs-Universiteit te Gent (Ghent, Belgium), on 25 March 1971.
3. 'La lutte bullioniste anglo-bourguignonne: sa contribution à la chute de l'industrie drapière de luxe et à l'essor des nouvelles draperies en Flandre et en Brabant, 1430-1480.'
Paper delivered to the Seminarie voor Middeleeuwse Geschiedenis of the Vrije Universiteit te Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) on 19 April 1971.
4. 'Depression and Culture in Fifteenth-Century Flanders and Brabant.'
Paper delivered to the American Musicological Society, 32nd Annual Meeting, at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina) on 18 November 1971.
A précis of this paper has been published in Abstracts of Papers Delivered to the Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society (Chapel Hill and Durham, N.C., 1971), pp. 40-41.
5. 'The Coming of Spanish Wools to the Low Countries: An Industrial Transformation of the Fifteenth Century.'
Paper delivered to the Midwest Medieval Conference, 11th Annual Meeting, at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, on 6 October 1973. Also delivered to the Economic History Workshop, University of Toronto, in November 1973.
6. 'Scarlets and the High Cost of Dyeing in the Middle Ages.'
Paper delivered to the Colloquium on Medieval Textiles in the Mediterranean Basin, in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, at the Royal Ontario Museum of Toronto, on 11 May 1977.
7. 'Mint Outputs, Monetary Change, and Economic Contraction in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries.'
Paper delivered to the Comparative World History Workshop: Conference on Pre-Modern Monetary History, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 30 August - 3 September 1977.
8. 'Bullionism and the Bill of Exchange in England, 1272 - 1663: A Study in Monetary Management and Popular Prejudice.'
Paper presented to the Conference on 'The Dawn of Banking', at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, 23 - 26 September 1977.
9. 'Scarlets and the Economics of Sartorial Splendour in the Middle Ages.'
A revised version of paper no. 6 above, delivered to the 'Five Colleges Medieval Seminar' at the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst, Mass. on 5 December 1977; and again to the Social History Group of Ontario (Toronto) on 5 February 1978.
10. 'Bullion Movements and Monetary Contraction in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries. 1235-1500 A.D.'
A revised version of the above paper of this title (no.7), delivered to the University of Toronto Economic History Workshop, on 16 January 1978.
11. 'Monetary Contraction, Depression, and Industrial Change in the Late Medieval Low Countries, 1335-1500.'
Paper delivered to the 'Third Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History: Coinage and Economic Development in the Low Countries,' on 10 September 1978.
12. 'The Medieval Scarlet and the Economics of Sartorial Splendour.'
A very considerably revised and expanded version of the above paper of this name (no. 9), delivered to the University of Toronto Economic History Workshop, on 20 October 1980.
13. 'Economic Depression and Culture in the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries.'
A much revised version of no. 4 above, delivered to University College Symposium Four, 'The Renaissance: Rediscovery and Exploration,' at the University of Toronto, on 21 January 1982.
14. 'Mint Outputs, Money, and Prices in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries.'
Paper delivered to the Theme C-7 section, on 'Minting and Monetary Circulation,' of the 8th International Economic History Congress, Budapest, 18 August 1982.
15. 'The Late-Medieval Bullion Famine and Deflation in North-West Europe: A Critique of the Postan Thesis.'
Paper delivered to the Workshop on 'Medieval Monetary Problems: Bimetallism and Bullionism,' at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association, 23 September 1982, Baltimore, Maryland.
16. 'The Luxury Trades of the Silk Road: How Much Did Silks and Spices Really Cost?'
Paper delivered to the Royal Ontario Museum Continuing Education Symposium, Silk Roads - China Ships, 12 October 1983, University of Toronto.
17. 'The Fullers' Guild and Industrial Strife in the Low Countries, 1340-1500.'
Paper delivered to the Thirteenth Medieval Workshop, University of British Columbia, 'Late Medieval Urban Institutions,' 19 November 1983.
18. 'Minting, Moneys-of-Account, and Monetary Change in Late-Medieval Brabant.'
Paper delivered to the Economic History Workshop, University of Toronto, 5 December 1983.
19. 'Inflation, Deflation, and the Big Problem of Petty Coinage in Late-Medieval Flanders, 1334-1484.'
Paper delivered to the Nineteenth International Congress of Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, on 13 May 1984.
20. 'Flemish Textile Production and the Changing Structure of Market Demand, 1270-1500.'
Paper presented to the 44th Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association, 21-23 September 1984, at Chicago, Illinois.
21. 'Industrial Change in Textile Manufacturing in the Late Medieval Low Countries: Responses to Market Adversities.'
Invited lecture given at Rutgers University, Department of History and Center for Medieval Studies (New Brunswick, New Jersey), 16 April 1985.
22. 'The Nature of Price Changes in the Late-Medieval Economy: A Critique of the Postan Thesis.'
Lecture-seminar given at Rutgers University, Department of History and Center for Medieval Studies (New Brunswick, New Jersey), 17 April 1985.
23. 'Environment, Land Management, and the Changing Qualities of English Wools in the Later Middle Ages.'
Paper presented to the 20th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 10 May 1985, at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
24. 'The Role of Petty Coinage in Monetary and Price Fluctuations in the Low Countries, 1334-1484.'
Public lecture sponsored by the Department of History, University of Trier, Federal Republic of Germany, 7 June 1985.
25. 'Petty Coinage in the Economy of Late-Medieval Flanders: Some Social Considerations of Public Minting.'
Paper presented to The Stockton Colloquium of 1985: 'Production and Transfer of Precious Metals and Changes in the Monetary Structures of Latin America and Europe, 1500-1800,' at the University of the Pacific, Stockton, California, on 3 October 1985.
26. 'The Behaviour of Wages During Deflation in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries.'
Paper presented to the Ninth International Economic History Congress, 26 August 1986, in Bern, Switzerland.
27. 'Structural Changes in Late-Medieval Textile Manufacturing: the Flemish Responses to Market Adversities, 1300-1500.'
Public lecture delivered at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain, Belgium) on 5 November 1986.
28. 'Wage Movements and Deflation in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries.'
Public lecture delivered to the Universitaire Faculteiten Sint-Ignatius, Universiteit Antwerpen (Antwerp, Belgium) on 13 November 1986.
29. 'The Central European Silver Mining Boom, Mint Outputs, and Prices in the Low Countries and England, 1450 - 1550.'
Paper delivered to the Second International Conference on 'The Production and Transfer of Precious Metals and Monetary Structures in Asia, America, and Europe, 15th to 19th Centuries:' at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, on 9 June 1987.
30. 'Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Industrial Urbanization in the Low Countries, 1200 - 1600.'
Paper presented to the conference 'An Urban Context: Medieval and Modern Cities,' organized by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Arizona State College of Business, at Phoenix, Arizona, on 26 March 1988.
31. 'The Flemish 'New Draperies': The Death and Resurrection of an Old Industry, 13th to 16th Centuries.'
Paper presented to the Anglo-Low Countries Conference on the New Draperies, sponsored by the Pasold Research Fund, London, and the Workshop on Quantitative Economic History, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, at Leuven, Belgium, on 14 April 1988.
32. 'The New Draperies: The Death and Resurrection of an Old Flemish Industry, Thirteenth to Sixteenth Centuries.'
Paper presented to the Economic History Workshop, University of Toronto, on 24 October 1988. [Revised and extended version of no. 31]
33. 'Oriental Spices and Their Costs in Medieval Cuisine: Luxuries or Necessities?'
Lecture delivered to the Canadian Perspectives Committee, Senior Alumni Association, University of Toronto, at University College, 8 November 1988.
34. 'International and Local Banking in Medieval and Renaissance England.'
Paper delivered to the International School on the History of Banking and Finance (University of Siena-C.N.R.), at the Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy, on 20 June 1989.
35. 'Industrial Transformations in the Northern Textile Trades, ca. 1290 - ca. 1350: Economic Progress or Economic Crisis?'
Paper delivered to the Historical Geography Research Group, Third Anglo-American Seminar on the Medieval Economy and Society, held at Chester College, Chester, England, on 15 July 1989.
36. 'On the Origins of Negotiability: Some Credit Innovations in Anglo-Flemish Trade, c. 1360 - c. 1540.'
Paper delivered to the Second Salzau-Kolloquium, 'Kredit im Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit,' sponsored by Die Ministerin für Bildung, Wissenschaft, Jugend und Kultur des Landes Schleswig-Holstein und die Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, held at the Herrenhaus Salzau, Schleswig-Holstein, 23 April 1990.
37. 'Monetary, Price, and Wage Fluctuations during the Late-Medieval 'Great Depression': Did Money Matter?'
Paper delivered to the Tenth International Economic History Congress, Session C.16: 'The Economic Depression of the Renaissance Revisited,' at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium, 21 August 1990.
38. 'Urban Regulation and Monopolistic Competition in the Textile Industries of the Late-Medieval Low Countries.'
Paper delivered to the Tenth International Economic History Congress, Session B-15: 'Textiles of the Low Countries in European Economic History,' at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, in Leuven, Belgium, on 23 August 1990.
39. 'The International Law Merchant and the Origins of Negotiable Credit in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries.'
Paper presented to the Convegno internazionale: 'Banchi pubblici, banchi privati e monti di pietà nell'Europa preindustriale: amministrazione, tecniche operative, e ruoli economici,' held at the Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy, on 2 October 1990.
40. 'On the Origins of Negotiability: Credit Instruments and the Law Merchant in Anglo-Flemish Commerce, 1353 - 1507.'
Paper presented to the Economic History Workshop, University of Toronto, on 5 November 1990.
41. 'The Belgian Archives.'
Lecture delivered to the Centre for Medieval Studies, Sources and Resources Committee, at the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies, on 22 March 1991.
42. 'Coinage Debasement as a Fiscal Policy: The Economics and Mechanics of Medieval Mint Manipulations.'
Paper delivered to the 38th Annual Convention of The Canadian Numismatic Association, 1991 Educational Forum, at the Westbury Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, on 26 July 1991.
43. 'Textiles, Towns, and Trade: Urban Institutions in the Decline of the Medieval Flemish Woollens Industry, ca. 1350 - 1500.'
Paper delivered to the 27th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, on 7 May 1992.
44. 'Bimetallic Ratios, Exchange Rates, and Labour Strife in the Late-Medieval Flemish Cloth Industry.'
Paper delivered to:
a) Annual meeting of the Medieval Academy of America, at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, on 2 April 1993.
b) Labour Economics Workshop, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, on 8 April 1993.
c) Economic History Workshop, Northwestern University, at Evanston, Illinois, on 22 April 1993.
d) Economic History Workshop, University of Illinois at Champagne-Urbana, on 23 April 1993.
45. 'Monetary Fluctuations, Entrepreneurship, and Labor Strife in the Flemish Textile Industry, 1390 - 1435.'
Paper delivered to the 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, on 6 May 1993.
46. 'Monetary Policies, Wage Fluctuations, and Labour Strife in the Late-Medieval Flemish Cloth Industry, 1390 - 1435.'
Paper delivered to the Economic History Workshop, University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario): on 23 November 1993.
47. 'Maritime and Overland Trade in Textiles between the Low Countries and Italy, 1200 - 1600: Which was the More Cost Effective?'
Paper delivered to the 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, at Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan), Session 201 ('Trade and Transit Markets in Northwestern Europe, 1350 - 1550'), on 6 May 1994.
48. 'The True Weights of the Marcs de Troyes in Late-Medieval France and Flanders: Evidence from Flemish Counterfeiting and Monetary Ordinances, 1388 - 1469'
Paper delivered to the First International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, Session 419: Medieval Arithmetic and Calculation, on 5 July 1994.
49. 'Urban Wage Structures in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries: Work-Time and Seasonal Wages'
Paper delivered to the 11th International Economic History Congress, Session B-3a, 'Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective, Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries,' at the Università Bocconi, Milan, on 13 September 1994.
50. 'Anglo-Flemish Competition in the International Cloth Trade, ca. 1340 - 1520: Endogenous and Exogenous Factors in the English 'Victory''
a) Paper delivered to the Colloque d'Oxford, of the Centre Européen des Études Bourguignonnes, at St. John's College, Oxford, on 24 September 1994.
b) Revised version delivered to the Economic History Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 14 April 1995.
51. 'Flemish Woollens and Hanseatic Commerce during the Later Middle Ages: Changing Trends in Markets and Cloth Prices, 1290 - 1550' [38 pp.]
a) Paper presented to the Hanseatic conference, at the Burgkloster zu Lübeck, 10 - 12 March 1997, on Wirtschaftliche Wechsellagen im hansischen Wirtschaftsraum, 1300-1800: Vergleichende konjunkturstatistische und wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur Wirtschafts- und Handelsgeschichte im Spätmittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit'
b) Lecture presented to the Department of History, Universiteit Antwerpen - Universiteit Faculteiten Sint-Ingatius te Antwerpen, 11 December 1997.
53. 'Real Wage Determination and the Problem of Nominal Wage-Stickiness in the Late-Medieval European Economy'
Seminar paper delivered to the Graduate Students Workshop, ECO 4060Y, Economics Department, University of Toronto, on 27 March 1997.
52. 'The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns, c.1290 - c.1330' [64 pp.]
Paper presented to the Seventh Annual Conference on Thirteenth-Century England, at St. Aidan's College, University of Durham, 1 - 4 September 1997.
53. 'English 'Backwardness' and Financial Innovations in Commerce with the Low Countries, 14th to 16th centuries' [58 pp.]
Paper presented to the Colloque Universiteit Gent - Universiteit Antwerpen (IUAP - Stedelijke Samenlevingen in de Laatmiddeleeuwse Nederlanden): 'Internationale Handel in de Nederlanden (14de-16de eeuw): Kooplieden, Organisatie en Infrastructure/International Trade in the Low Countries (14th-16th centuries): Merchants, Organisation, and Infrastructure: at the Universiteit Antwerpen, 13 December 1977.
54. 'Disputes About Mint Metrology in Late-Medieval Flanders, France and England: Determining the Weight of the Marc de Troyes and the Tower Pound from the Economics of Counterfeiting, 1388 - 1469' [29 pp.]
Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Classical and Medieval Numismatics Society, at the Primrose Hotel, Toronto, on 21 February 1998.
55. 'The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns, c.1290 - c.1330' [64 pp.]
A revised version of no. 52 above, delivered to the Center for Early Modern History, at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), on 6 March 1998.
56. 'Precious Metals and the Origins of the Price Revolution Reconsidered: The Conjuncture of Monetary and Real Forces in the European Inflation of the Early to Mid-Sixteenth Century' [56 pp.]
Paper presented to Session B.6, 'Monetary History in Global Perspective, 1500 - 1808,' at the Twelfth International Economic History Congress in Madrid, 25 August 1998.
57. 'The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with the Mediterranean Basin, 1200-1600: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Comparative Advantages in Overland and Maritime Trade Routes' [32 pp.]
Paper presented to Session C.2: 'Means of Communication, Spread of Information and European and Mediterranean Commerce, 10th - 17th Centuries, ' at the Twelfth International Economic History Congress, in Madrid, 26 August 1998.
58. 'Determinanten der Entwicklung von Preisen, Löhnen unde des Geldes, 1135-1820/ The Chief Determinants of Price, Wage, and Monetary Movements in Western Europe, 1135 - 1820: A New View of 'Long-Waves' [39 pp.]
A paper presented to the conference: Wirtschaftliche Wechsellagen im hansischen Wirtschaftsraum 1300 - 1800: Verleichende konjunkturstatistische und wirtschaftsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen zur Wirtschafts- und Handelsgeschichte im Spätmittelater und in der frühen Neuzeit, at Lübeck, Germany, on 30 July 1999.
59. 'Wage-Stickiness, Monetary Changes, and Real Incomes in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, 1300 - 1450: Did Money Really Matter?' [49 pp.]
Paper presented to the international conference on 'New Trends in Late Medieval Studies', at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 24 August 1999.
60. Commentator on three papers in 19th-century German Demography:
- Stephan Klasen (Munich): 'Gender Bias in Mortality in a Comparative Perspective: Excess Female Mortality in Germany in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries'
- Terence McIntosh (North Carolina at Chapel Hill): 'Urban Demographic Stagnation in Early Modern Southwest Germany: a Computer Simulation'
- Simone Wegge, 'Self-Selection of Nineteenth-Century German Emigrants: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel'
For papers presented at the First Conference on German Cliometrics, at the Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, 23 - 26 September 1999.
61. 'The 'New Institutional Economics' and the Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Transaction Costs, Warfare, and Textiles' [54 pp.]
Paper presented to the Annual Conference, the 32nd Settimana di Studio, of the Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica 'Francesco Datini', on: Fiere e mercati nella integrazione delle economie europee, seccoli XIII - XVIII, in Prato, Italy, 8 - 12 May 2000.
Revised version of the paper presented to the Economic History Workshop, Department of Economics, University of Waterloo, on 13 October 2000.
62. 'Wage Stickiness, Monetary Changes, and Real Incomes in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, 1300 - 1470: Did Money Really Matter?' [93 pp.]
a) Paper presented to the Economic History and Labour Workshops, Department of Economics, University of Toronto, on 23 February 2001.
b) Paper presented to the Workshop in Money, History, and Finance, Department of Economics, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey): on 26 March 2001.
1. Special issue on: 'Proeve 't al, 't is prysselyck': Verbruik in Europese steden (13de - 18de eeuw)/Consumption in the West European City (13th - 18th Century): Liber Amicorum Raymond Van Uytven.