Buyers & Sellers: Retail Circuits and Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

1. Bruno Blondé, Peter Stabel, Jon Stobart and Ilja Van Damme / Retail circuits and practices in medieval and early modern Europe: an introduction 7
2. Evelyn Welch / The fairs of early modern Italy 31
3. Donatella Calabi / Renewal of the shop system: Italy in the early modern period 51
4. Fabrizio Nevola / \'Più honorati et suntuosi ala Republica\': botteghe and luxury retail along Siena’s Strada Romana 65
5. Peter Stabel / From the market to the shop. Retail and urban space in late medieval Bruges 79
6. Richard Britnel / Markets, shops, inns, taverns and private houses in medieval English trade 109
7. Derek Keene / Sites of desire: shops, selds and wardrobes in London and other English cities, 1100-1550 125
8. Vanessa Harding / Shops, markets and retailers in London’s Cheapside, c. 1500-1700 155
9. Harald Deceulaer / Dealing with diversity: pedlars in the Southern Netherlands in the eighteenth century 171
10. Ilja Van Damme / Changing consumer preferences and evolutions in retailing. Buying and selling consumer durables in Antwerp (c. 1648 - c. 1748) 199
11. Jon Stobart / Clothes, cabinets and carriages: second-hand dealing in eighteenth-century England 225
12. Beverly Lemire / Plebeian commercial circuits and everyday material exchange in England, c. 1600-1900 245
13. David Gentilcore / Martino Grimaldi and the merchant-charlatans of early modern Italy 267
14. James Shaw / Liquidation or certification? Small claims disputes and retail credit in seventeenth-century Venice 277
15. Laura Van Aert / Trade and gender emancipation: retailing women in sixteenth-century Antwerp 297
16. Erwin Steegen / Eighteenth-century Maastricht shopkeepers and their hinterland customers 315
17. Claire Walsh / The social relations of shopping in early-modern England 331