The effects of commercial privileges in late medieval Bordeaux, 1348–1449
The effects of commercial privileges in late medieval Bordeaux, 1348–1449
This article examines the impact of a developed bourgeois legal status on late medieval Bordeaux’s wine market, between 1348—the year of the arrival of the Black Death—and 1449, shortly before the end of Plantagenet rule (in 1453). Through their control of the city’s powerful commune, the bourgeoisie acquired a portfolio of commercial advantages that distorted the export market in the interests of its members: a minority of influential townspeople, ecclesiastics—both individuals and institutions—as well as knights and secular lords allied to the English crown. Using considerable new quantitative evidence from Bordeaux’s customs books, this group is shown to have increased its exports at a time when trade was in decline, and—in turn—invested profits in the city’s hinterland, its suburbs and the wider Bordelais.
Blackmore, Robert
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1 March 2020
Blackmore, Robert
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Blackmore, Robert
(2020)
The effects of commercial privileges in late medieval Bordeaux, 1348–1449.
French History, 34 (1), [1].
(doi:10.1093/fh/crz095).
Abstract
This article examines the impact of a developed bourgeois legal status on late medieval Bordeaux’s wine market, between 1348—the year of the arrival of the Black Death—and 1449, shortly before the end of Plantagenet rule (in 1453). Through their control of the city’s powerful commune, the bourgeoisie acquired a portfolio of commercial advantages that distorted the export market in the interests of its members: a minority of influential townspeople, ecclesiastics—both individuals and institutions—as well as knights and secular lords allied to the English crown. Using considerable new quantitative evidence from Bordeaux’s customs books, this group is shown to have increased its exports at a time when trade was in decline, and—in turn—invested profits in the city’s hinterland, its suburbs and the wider Bordelais.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 18 December 2019
Published date: 1 March 2020
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/478427
ISSN: 0269-1191
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