English Woollen Industry, c.1200-c.1560

John Oldland is Professor Emeritus at Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec.

• 1. Introduction to English Woollens 2. Woollens Production and the Growing English Advantage 3. Dress, the Wool Supply, and Industry Regulation 4. The Thirteenth Century: A False Start? 5. Coarse Woollens in the Early-Fourteenth Century 6. The Fourteenth-Century Urban Revival 7. Revival of Exports, and an Assessment of Clothmaking at the End of the Fourteenth Century 8. Working Conditions in Towns 9. The Turbulent Fifteenth Century 10. The Clothiers’ Century 1450-1550 11. The March of the Clothiers 12. The London-Antwerp Ascendency and the Merchant Adventurers Company 13. Export Expansion, 1470-1555 14. Location of the Sixteenth-Century Woollens Industry 15. Crossroads