The Celys and Their World: An English Merchant Family of the Fifteenth CenturyCambridge University Press, 18 lug 2002 - 492 pagine From the start of his career as a young woolmerchant, about 1473, George Cely was a hoarder. He kept everything, from important business accounts down to the scrap of paper on which his father had once noted that the brewer and tailor hadn't been paid yet. The result is a rich collection, which not merely documents the Cely family's activities as staplers and ship-owners, but also gives vivid details of their intimate concerns: what they ate and wore, where they lived, how they spent their money - and where they went for loans when the cash ran short - how they amused themselves, and how they coped with trade recessions and political turmoil at home and abroad. This is the first comprehensive study to be based on the material. |
Sommario
List of figures and tables | vii |
Preface | ix |
Acknowledgments | xii |
List of abbreviations | xiv |
THE CELYS AND THEIR CIRCLE 147482 | 1 |
The Cely family and their background | 3 |
Japes and sad matters | 30 |
Alarms and tribulations 14801 | 62 |
Customers and marts | 203 |
Calais and the Staple Company | 224 |
RICHARD AND GEORGE CELY 14829 | 253 |
Richard and George 14823 | 255 |
The world goeth on wheels 14825 | 284 |
Marriage and housekeeping | 309 |
Warfare and trade 14869 | 340 |
The Margaret Cely of London | 361 |
Two black sheep and a nuisance | 82 |
THE WOOL TRADE | 109 |
The trade in fleecewool | 111 |
Woolfells | 148 |
Monetary matters | 164 |
Charge and discharge the Celys finances 14829 | 398 |
Postscript on later family history | 423 |
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435 | |
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