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Gwen Seabourne.
Royal Regulation of Loans and Sales in Medieval England: “Monkish Superstition and Civil Tyranny”.
Published Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003.
ISBN 1843830221;
ISBN-13: 9781843830221.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printer: the St. Edmundsbury Press, Bury St. Edmunds.
Size: 160×240×23mm.
Page count: xi,216pp inc. 6 monochrome graphs.
Main languages: English; translations generally given in original language with English translation following; appendix 1 gives some summaries in a table, followed by the original texts in Latin.
Unused bargain: these copies are not supplied shrink-wrapped, so may show some evidence of handling, the usual mild scuffs & marks etc.

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[Publisher’s price £55.00/$90.00]
Weight without packaging: 535g.

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This book looks at laws prohibiting usury, forestalling and regrating and regulating prices in England during the reigns of the first three Edwards and Richard II (1272-1399). The laws had the potential to affect a vast number of people and their everyday sales and loans, and represent an important aspect of the advancing role of law in the later middle ages; the author takes issue with established opinion, which seems as them as the product of “monkish superstition and civil tyranny” (in Blackstone’s famous phrase), arguing that they are an evolving area of activity, characterised by experiment, compromise and interaction with other rule-making and rule-enforcing bodies.

Contents: Sources, opinions & approaches; Prohibition of usury; Regulation of sales; Laws against forestalling, regrating & related conduct.
Appendices: Cases & reports from central royal courts: — from other courts; Usury & common pleas; Other documents relating to usury.

Illustrations: 6 graphs
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: 3
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 21pp
Index: yes

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