No More Baubles
Tom Johnson: Post-Plague Consumption, 22 September 2022
Household Goods and Good Households in Late Medieval London: Consumption and Domesticity after the Plague
by Katherine L. French.
Pennsylvania, 314 pp., £52, October 2021,978 0 8122 5305 4 Show More
by Katherine L. French.
Pennsylvania, 314 pp., £52, October 2021,
“... as evidence that the Black Death collapsed traditional hierarchies and spooked the elites. The chancellor noted that such an ordinance was ‘new and never before witnessed’. But only two years later the Commons changed its mind. Merchants had been ‘severely aggrieved’ by the restriction of their customer base and MPs decided that monopolies and ... ”