This article examines the unequal organisation of the grain market in the Low Countries in the fourteenth century. It looks in turn at the ways in which several towns compensated for their difficulties in accessing food by asserting their leadership over secondary towns and their hinterland, and at the ways in which urban legislation guaranteed specific privileges of access to certain categories of buyers or sellers. Finally, the article discusses the caution that must be exercised in attempting to relate the flowering of urban legislation in the fourteenth century to the context of repeated crises during that century.
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Chapter Title
Inequalities in access to the food market: the city as a producer of norms in the fourteenth century (Low Countries)
Authors
Alexis Wilkin
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8.14
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Publication Year
2025
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Book Title
Socio-Economic Inequalities during the Conjuncture of the Fourteenth Century
Book Subtitle
Sources and Methods, Dynamics and Representations (Italy and Europe, c. 1270 - c. 1350)
Editors
Davide Cristoferi
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Number of Pages
458
Publication Year
2025
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© 2025 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0705-8
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0699-0
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0705-8
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0707-2
Series Title
Reti Medievali E-Book
Series ISSN
2704-6362
Series E-ISSN
2704-6079