Professor John Munro passed away on December 23, 2013. This site is maintained and kept online as an archive. For more infomation please visit the Centre for Medieval Studies
Professor (Emeritus) John H. Munro passed away December 23, 2013
Updated: 28 June 2013
All of the following working-papers, listed below on this page, are presented in PDF [portable document file] format only; and in this format, they may be downloaded, saved to disk, and/or printed out.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 67: MUNRO 98-01: [1998 - 06 - 18]
Published as: '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.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 68: MUNRO 98-02: [1998 - 06 - 18]
Published as: '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.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 69: MUNRO 98-03: [1998 - 06 - 18]
Published as: '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.
It has also been made available, by the publisher, as a pdf file, an exact reproduction of the printed essay.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 70: MUNRO 98-04: [1998 - 06 - 18]
'Textiles as Articles of Consumption in Flemish Towns, 1330 - 1575', Bijdragen tot de geschiedenis, 81:1-3 (1998), 275-88. With a Dutch summary
This is a special festschrift issue of this journal, with the title: "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.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 71: MUNRO 98-05: [1998 - 06 - 18]
see the revised verion of this paper, below, as Working Paper no. 20.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 72: MUNRO 98-06: [1998 - 06 - 18]
Published as: '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.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 73 : MUNRO 99-01: [1999 - 07 - 10]
Revised version of this working paper: List of References added (19 June 2009)
Published as: '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', The International Journal of Maritime History, 11:2 (Dec. 1999), 1 - 30.
It has been made available, by the publisher, as a pdf file, an exact reproduction of the printed essay.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 74: MUNRO 99-02: [1999 - 06 - 11]
Published as: 'The Monetary Origins of the "Price Revolution:" South German Silver Mining, Merchant-Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1540',
in Dennis Flynn, Arturo Giráldez, and Richard von Glahn, eds., Global Connections and Monetary History, 1470 - 1800
(Aldershot and Brookfield, Vt: Ashgate Publishing, 2003), pp. 1-34.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 88: MUNRO - 00 - 01 [2000 - 06 - 10]
Published as: '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.
A somewhat different version (with a different conclusion) has been published by the Datini Institute of Prato, Italy; and it is freely available
in this PDF file, an exact copy of the publication.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 95: MUNRO 00 - 02: [2000 - 07 - 10]
Unpublished paper fully revised as Working Paper no. 33, below (2007)
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 100: MUNRO 00 - 03: [2000 - 11 - 20]
Published as: 'Wage Stickiness, Monetary Changes, and Real Incomes in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, 1300 - 1500:
Did Money Matter?' Research in Economic History, 21 (2003), 185 - 297.
It has been made available, by the publisher, as a pdf file, an exact reproduction of the printed essay.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 101: MUNRO 00 - 04: [2000 - 11 - 22]
Published as: 'Medieval Woollens: The Western European Woollen Industries and their Struggles
for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500', in
David Jenkins, ed., The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, 2 vols. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003),
Vol. I, chapter 5, pp. 228-324, 378-86 (bibliography).
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 102: MUNRO 00 - 05: [2000 - 11 - 24]
Published in the same volume as: 'Medieval Woollens: Textiles, Textile Technology, and Industrial Organisation, c. 800 - 1500', in
David Jenkins, ed., The Cambridge History of Western Textiles, 2 vols. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003),
Vol. I, chapter 4, pp. 181-227.
This chapter is now available online, at the Cambridge University Press website; but not as a PDF file. To access this chapter, you must go to this CUP website; find
the name of this chapter, and then click on the blue-highlighted web link.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 106: MUNRO 01 - 01: [2001 - 05 - 24]
Published as: '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, January 1526-March 1527 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
2003), Appendix: pp. 551-699.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 136: MUNRO 01 - 02: [2001 - 07 - 11]
Published as: 'The Medieval Origins of the Financial Revolution: Usury, Rentes, and Negotiablity',
The International History Review, 25:3 (September 2003), 505-62.
It has also been made available, by the publisher, as a pdf file, an exact reproduction of the printed essay.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 139: MUNRO 02 - 01: [2001 - 07 - 11]
Published as: 'Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, 5th to 18th Centuries: the Limitations of Power',
in Simonetta Cavaciocchi, ed., Economia ed energia, seccoli XIII - XVIII, Atti delle Settimane di Studi e altrie Convegni,
Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica, Francesco Datini da Prato, vol. 34 (Florence, Le Monnier: 2003), pp. 223-69.
It has also been made available, by the publisher, as a pdf file, an exact reproduction of the printed essay.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 141: MUNRO 02 - 02: [2002 - 07 - 11]
Never published, this Working Paper has been replaced by a revised version, no. 34 below (2008).
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 142: MUNRO 02 - 03: [2002 - 07 - 11]
See revised version in Working Paper no. 23, below. That version, no. 23, omits some of the text in this version,
and contains only two of the original 14 tables (and in a different format). Version no. 23 contains, however, additional
evidence and texts not contained in this older version. Those differences explain why both are retained on this site.
Includes a pdf file with graphs. Also available in MS Word . This working paper has been partly superseded and replaced by no. 44 below (but no. 44 does not contain any analysis of prices and wages in Flanders, as in this earlier paper).
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 152: MUNRO 02 - 04: [2002 - 07 - 11]
Monetary and Price Graphs: contained in an MS-Word file
This still unpublished paper was delivered to the Colloque de Montreal: Postan-Duby: Destin d'un paradigme. Peut-on comprendre les crises economiques de la fin du moyen age sans le modele malthusien?
Montreal: Universite de Quebec a Montreal, on 10 October 2002. See WP no. 44 below.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 153: MUNRO 02 - 05: [2002 - 07 - 11]
Published as: 'Gold, Guilds, and Government: The Impact of Monetary and Labour Policies on the Flemish Cloth Industry, 1390-1435',
Jaarboek voor middeleeuwsche geschiedenis, 5 (2002), 153 - 205.
It has also been made freely available online, by the publisher, as a pdf file.
article.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 177: MUNRO 04 - 01: [2005 - 03 - 11]
Note: this posted working paper contains two sets of graphs (in colour), contained in two separate pdf files.
Published as: 'Builders' Wages in Southern England and the Southern Low Countries, 1346 -1500:
A Comparative Study of Trends in and Levels of Real Incomes', in Simonetta Caviococchi, ed.,
L'Edilizia prima della rivoluzione industriale, secc. XIII-XVIII, Atti delle Settimana di Studi e altri convegni, no. 36,
Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica Francesco Datini (Florence, 2005), pp. 1013-76.
This published version is also available online as a pdf file supplied by
the publisher.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 178: MUNRO 04 - 02: [2005 - 03 - 11]
Published as: 'The Debate About Mandatory Retirement in Ontario Universities: Positive and Personal Choices About Retirement at 65', in
C.T. (Terry) Gillin, David MacGregor, and Thomas R. Klassen, eds.,Time's Up: Mandatory Retirement in Canada (Toronto:
Canadian Association of University Teachers and Lorimer Press, 2005), pp. 191-218, 293-302 (notes), 306-320
(volume bibliography).
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 179: MUNRO 04 - 03: [2005 - 03 - 11]
Published as: 'Spanish Merino Wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: an Industrial Transformation in the Late-Medieval Low Countries',
Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 58:3 (August 2005), 431-84.
This published version is also available online as a pdf file, supplied by this journal.
The complete citation information for the final version of this paper, as published in the
print edition of The Economic
History Review, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's
website, or also at this URL for Blackwell-Synergy.com.
Note that this revised, published, and online version contains only two tables, while
the earlier Working Paper version, no. 18, contains 14 tables, along with other material cut from the final
published verion; and thus Working Paper no. 18, the older version, still remains as a useful document for consultation,
though, as noted above (for no. 18), this final published version contains newer evidence and analysis not found in the
original version.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 180: MUNRO 04 - 04: [2005 - 03 - 11]
Published as: 'Before and After the Black Death: Money, Prices, and Wages in Fourteenth-Century England', in Troels Dahlerup and Per Ingesman, eds.,
New Approaches to the History of Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Selected Proceedings of Two International Conferences at The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in Copenhagen in 1997 and 1999,
Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser, no. 104 (Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2009), pp. 335-364.
The Danish publisher has provided a PDF file of this publication (offprint).
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 201: [2006 - 06 - 13]
Attached to this Working Paper is a pdf file containing a colour graph (figure) on: the percentage distribution of colours of
textiles purchased (by value) for the upper echelons of the Bruges civic government, 1301-10 to 1491-96. It is also
accessible here in both an MS-Word file and the
pdf file.
Published as: 'The Anti-Red Shift -- to the Dark Side: Changing Colour Patterns of Flemish Luxury Woollens,
1300 - 1550', Medieval Clothing and Textiles, 3 (2007), 55-95: edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R. Owen-Crocker,
and published by Boydell & Brewer (Woodbridge, Suffolk).
This published version is also available online as a pdf file supplied by
the publisher, for public distribution.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 224 [2006 - 04 - 10]
This paper was delivered to 38th annual Datini Conference (Prato) on 6 May 2006. It has now been published as:
'South German Silver, European Textiles, and Venetian Trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720:
A Non-mercantilist Approach to the Balance of Payments Problem, in Simonetta Cavaciocchi, ed.,
Relazione economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico, seccoli XIII - XVIII, Atti delle Settimana di Studi
e altri convegni, no. 38, Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica Francesco Datini (Florence: Le Monnier, 2007), pp. 907-62.
This published version is also available online as a pdf file supplied by
the publisher, for public distribution.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 225 [2006 - 04 - 10]
This paper was delivered to the Second Dutch-Flemish Conference on The Economy and Society of the
Low Countries in the Pre-Industrial Period, at the Universiteit Antwerp, on 20 April 2006.
Attached to this Working Paper is a pdf file containing four colour graphs (figures) on comparative real
wage trends (in index numbers and in terms of the nominal values of 'baskets' of consumables). It is
also available here as an MS-Word file.
This paper also appears on the website
of the The N.W. Posthumus Institute for The Economy and Society of the Low Countries in the Pre-Industrial Period (University of Utrecht): as year 2006, no. 7
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 243 [2006 - 07 - 04]
This paper was first presented at the 14th International Economic History Congress in Helsinki, Finland,
on 25 August 2006, for Session 25: Luxury Production, Consumption, and the Art Market in Early Modern Europe;
and then also at the Conference (Seminar) on Medieval Textile History in Northern Europe: in Copenhagen, Denmark,
on 26 August 2006 (The Danish National Research Foundation's Centre for Textile Research, in association with the
Saxo Institute, both at the University of Copenhagen). Included in this on-line
version of Working Paper 28 is an additional pdf file containing six colour graphs (figures) on Ghent cloth prices,
which are also accessible in both this pdf file and in
an MS-Word file.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 244 [2006 - 07 - 10]
This Working Paper no. 29 (no. 244 in the departmental series) has now been published, in
condensed form (and with no tables, etc.), in Italian translation, as the following: John Munro, 'I panni di lana',
in Angelo Colla (editor in chief), Il Rinascimento italiano et l'Europa, vol. IV: Commercio e cultura mercantile, ed. by Franco Franceschi,
Richard Goldthwaite, and Reinhold Mueller (Fondazione Cassamarca: Treviso, 2007), pp. 105-41.
It has also been made freely available, by the publisher, as a pdf file, an exact reproduction of the printed essay.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
A much revised and vastly expanded version of this paper is to be found below as Working Paper no. 42, now published.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 257 [2006 - 10 - 09]
The pdf file for the latest revised version of this paper is available via this
web link. Note that, as of 16 October 2006, we are no longer permitted to edit
working papers, after they have been posted on line.
Presented to the 'History of Entrepreneurship Conference' (organized by Professors William Baumol,
David Landes, and Joel Mokyr), sponsored by the Ewing
Marion Kauffman Foundation and New York University: 19 - 21 October 2006.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 288 [2007 - 06 - 11]
A revised pdf file for this paper is now available, but no revised versions may be posted on this Working Papers web-site, for the reasons explained above.
This working paper no. 31 has now been published as follows:
John Munro, 'The Usury Doctrine and Urban Public Finances in Late-Medieval Flanders (1220 - 1550): Rentes (Annuities), Excise Taxes, and
Income Transfers from the Poor to the Rich', in Simonetta Cavaciocchi, ed., La fiscalita nell'economia Europea, secc. XIII - XVIII/
Fiscal Systems in the European Economy from the 13th to the 18th Centuries, Atti della Trentanovesima Settimana di Studi, 22 - 26 aprile 2007,
Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", Prato, Serie II: Atti delle Settimane de Studi et altri Convegni 39
(Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008), pp. 973-1026.
It has also been made available, by the publisher, as a pdf file, an exact reproduction of the printed essay.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
See the also the PowerPoint presentation for this paper.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 295 [2007 - 07 - 11]
This is a much revised version of Working Paper no. 30 (257) above, and basically the actual paper presented to the 'History of Entrepreneurship' Conference at New York University, 19-21 October 2006.
Much reduced in scope, compared to WP no. 30, some sections have also been much revised and expanded from the draft version given at the conference.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 303 [2007 - 12 - 13]
This is a much revised version of Working Paper no. 10 above (Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the Later Middle Ages): expanded
to include English textiles, and with a new set of tables and six graphs.
This paper has now been published, but with fewer tables, and without the graphs, as follows: John H. Munro, 'Hanseatic Commerce in Textiles from the Low Countries and England during the Later Middle Ages:
Changing Trends in Textiles, Markets, Prices, and Values, 1290 - 1570', in Marie-Luise Heckmann and Jens Roehrkasten, eds.,
Von Nowgorod bis London: Studien zu Handel, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im mittelalterlichen Europa: Festschrift fuer Stuart Jenks zum 60. Geburtstag, Nova Mediaevalia. Quellen und
Studien zum europäischen Mittelalter (Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008), pp. 97-181.
An offprint is available as a PDF file, which may be downloaded and printed.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 320 [2008 - 05 - 23]
This is a much revised and expanded version of Working Paper no. 17 (2002) above.
Click this web link for the most recent, revised version of this working paper no. 34 (in pdf
format): whose revisions chiefly involve correction of typographical and spelling
errors, table titles and headings, and some statistical figures.
This paper now been published in the journal História e Economia: Revista Interdisciplinar, 4:1 (2008), 13-71.
An offprint is available as a
PDF file, which may be downloaded and printed.
This publication in PDF format is also available on-line from MPRA: Munich Personal RePEc Archive: RePEc = Research Papers in Economics
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 323 [2008 - 07 - 21]
This Working Paper is related to yet substantially different from no. 28 (Economics-Tecipa no. 243) above.
This paper has now been published as: John Munro, 'Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries',
in Philipp Robinson Roessner, ed., Cities, Coins, and Commerce. Essays Presented to Ian Blanchard on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday,
Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit, Vol. 31 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012), pp. 121-48.
An offprint ot this publication is also available as a
PDF file, which may be downloaded and printed. It also contains the full table of contents of this volume.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 331 [2008 - 08 - 29]
This Working Paper is related to, yet substantially different from, nos. 28 and 35 (Economics-Tecipa nos. 243, 323) above.
Now in press, with a different title:
'Three Centuries of Luxury Textile Consumption in the Low Countries and England, 1330 - 1570: Trends and Comparisons of Real Values of Woollen Broadcloth (Then and Now)',
in Kathrine Vestergĺrd and Marie Louise Nosch, eds., The Medieval Broadcloth: Changing Trends in Fashions, Manufacturing, and Consumption, Ancient Textile Series, vol. 5 (Oxford: Oxbow Books, forthcoming).
Pre-publication page proofs in PDF.
The PDF file as for is now available online (after a three-year publicaiton ban, ending in Nov. 2012)
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 355 [2009 - 04 - 07]
See the also the PowerPoint presentation for this paper.
See also the publication data concerning WP no. 38 below.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 361 [2009 - 06 - 26]
This is a much revised and considerably shortened version of Working Paper no. 355 [Munro no. 37], with some major changes and some corrections. It has the same set of tables, but a new set of graphs (figures).
A recently revised version of this paper (which cannot be posted on the departmental Working Papers web site).
This paper (combined with aspects of WP no. 37) has now been published, in much revised form, and with a revised title as: John Munro, 'Coinage Debasements in Burgundian Flanders, 1384 - 1482: Monetary or Fiscal Policies?' in
David Nicholas, Bernard Bacharach, and James Murry, eds., Comparative Perspectives on History and Historians: Essays in Memory of Bryce Lyon (1920-2007),
Medieval Institute Publications, University of Western Michigan (Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute, 2012), pp. 314-60.
An offprint ot this publication is also available as a
PDF file, which may be downloaded and printed.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 417 [2010 - 11 - 26]
Also available as a PDF File
Now published as: 'The Coinages and Monetary Policies of Henry VIII (r 1509-47)', in Charles Fantazzi (translator) and James Estes, eds.,
The Collected Works of Erasmus: The Correspondence of Erasmus, Vol. 14: Also Available as a PDF file , which may be downloaded and printed.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 424 [2011 -02 - 28]
This working paper is also available, in revised form, separately as a PDF file
Graphs for this paper (already included in the above PDF file and the departmental Working Paper 424): in PDF format and in MS-Word format.
Power Point presentation. Please note that the graphs that appear in this 2010 Power Point presentation have been superseded by updated graphs that appear in
the Working Paper version of this essay, as indicated above.
Paper delivered to the following conference: "England in the Age of the Black Death: in Honour of John Hatcher": a conference held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 8-10 August 2009.
This paper has now been published, in somewhat reduced form (and without the graphs), as: ‘The Late-Medieval Decline of English Demesne Agriculture: Demographic, Monetary, and Political-Fiscal Factors',
in Stephen Rigby and Mark Bailey, eds., Town and Countryside in the Age of the Black Death: Essays in Honour of John Hatcher, The Medieval Countryside, vol. 12 (Turnhout: Brepols. 2012), pp. 299-348.
This essay is available as a PDF file, but one that cannot legally be published on the departmental website.
See the following review of this book in Reviews in History, December 2012 .
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 439 [2011 - 06 - 28]
Also available as a PDF file, which may be downloaded and printed.
Now published as: John Munro, 'Usury, Calvinism and Credit in Protestant England: from the Sixteenth Century to the Industrial Revolution', in Francesco Ammannati, ed.,
Religione e istituzioni religiose nell'economia europea, 1000 - 1800/ Religion and Religious Institutions in the European Economy, 1000 - 1800, Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini,
Prato, Serie II: Atti delle Settimane de Studi e altri Convegni no. 43 (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2012), pp. 155-84.
Also available is this final publshed version in a PDF file, which may be downloaded and printed.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 440 [2011 - 11 - 07]
This is an extensive revision and major expansion of my earlier Working Paper no. 29: Economics Department Working Paper no. 244 [2006 - 04], based on very substantial new research in both primary and
secondary sources, with the addition of many new tables.
Also available as a PDF file: with some corrections of the online version in the departmental Working Paper series.
Now published as: John Munro, 'The Rise, Expansion, and Decline of the Italian Wool-Based Textile Industries, 1100 - 1730: A study in international competition, transaction costs, and comparative
advantage', Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3rd ser., 9 (2012), 45-207. Also posted here is a
PDF file of the final publication.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 456 [2012 - 06 - 06]
This paper has been published, in somewhat revised form (and without the bibliography appended here), in: John H. Munro, ed., Money in the Pre-Industrial World: Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes,
Financial History Series no. 20 (London: Pickering & Chatto Ltd., 2012), pp. 15-32, 185-89 (endnotes). Click on this web link for
the publisher's web site for this book.
Unlike most publishers today, Pickering & Chatto refuses to supply its contributing authors and editors with PDF files
for their chapters. From the publisher, however, I was able to obtain post online the introduction to this volume in PDF format.
I have also posted here is the PDF fle for a photocopied and scanned version of this chapter.
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 463 [2012 - 08 - 08]: this is a much revised and updated version of Working Paper no. 19 (see above).
Also available directly, in a revised, updated version (28 June 2013): as a PDF file , with tables and graphs included.
To be published in John Drendel, ed., The Late-Medieval Economic and Social Crises: Rethinking the Postan-Duby Paradigm (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, in press).
Department of Economics Working Paper no. 487 [2013 - 05 - 13]
This is a revised, updated, and condensed version of the first part of Working Paper no. 42, above
This paper was first presented to the conference on Textiles and the Economy in the Middle Ages:, at the SAXO Institute of the University of Copenhagen, 18 - 21 April 2012.
See the Power Point version of this paper.
This essay is to be published in the following edited collection: Angela Huang and Carsten Janhke (eds), Textiles in the Medieval and Early Modern Economies, Ancient Textile Series (Oxbow Books: Oxford).
NOTES AND EXPLANATIONS:
Other Online Locaations of My Working Papers :