All Outputs (15)

Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546 (2024)
Journal Article
Goddard, R., & Smalley, G. (2024). Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546. Midland History, https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2299035

This paper examines the decline of the fraternity of St. George in Nottingham between 1459 and 1546. It uses the guild’s accounts in conjunction with Nottingham’s rich surviving documentary materials to investigate the financial management of the fra... Read More about Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546.

Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation? (2022)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2022). Was Commerce in Late Medieval Coventry Restricted by Regulation?. In C. Dyer (Ed.), Changing Approaches to Local History: Warwickshire History and its Historians (51-72). Boydell Press

THE LATIN PROJECT, Before the Merchant Adventurers: Building the Hall. Account Book of the Fraternity of Jesus and Mary, York, 1357–69: (York: Centre of Medieval Studies, University of York, 2021. £10. 108 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5272-9987-0). (2022)
Journal Article
Goddard, R. (2022). THE LATIN PROJECT, Before the Merchant Adventurers: Building the Hall. Account Book of the Fraternity of Jesus and Mary, York, 1357–69: (York: Centre of Medieval Studies, University of York, 2021. £10. 108 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5272-9987-0). Northern History, 59(2), 304-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/0078172x.2022.2112005

Uncertainty: Staple Credit and the Measurement of Later Medieval “Business Confidence” (2021)
Journal Article
Goddard, R. (2022). Uncertainty: Staple Credit and the Measurement of Later Medieval “Business Confidence”. Enterprise and Society, 23(4), 950-983. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.6

Business confidence is a measure of optimism or pessimism that managers feel about the commercial prospects for their organizations. This paper uses later medieval high-value English credit data as a proxy gauge of merchants' business confidence or u... Read More about Uncertainty: Staple Credit and the Measurement of Later Medieval “Business Confidence”.

Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532 (2019)
Journal Article
Goddard, R. (2019). Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532. Journal of British Studies, 58(3), 494-518. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2019.4

This article examines English women who were engaged in wholesale long-distance or international trade in the later Middle Ages. These women made up only a small proportion of English merchants, averaging about 3 to 4 percent of the mercantile popula... Read More about Female merchants? Women, debt and trade in later medieval England, 1266-1532.

Trust: Business networks and the borough court (2019)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2019). Trust: Business networks and the borough court. In R. Goddard, & T. Phipps (Eds.), Town courts and urban society in late medieval England, 1250-1500. , (176-99). Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer

High finance: women and staple credit in England, 1353-1532 (2018)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2018). High finance: women and staple credit in England, 1353-1532. In E. Dermineur (Ed.), Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial Europe. , (19-44). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/m.eer-eb.5.115747

Boom and bust: patterns of borrowing in later medieval England (2016)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2016). Boom and bust: patterns of borrowing in later medieval England. In Credit and Trade in Later Medieval England, 1353-1532Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48987-6

Credit and trade in later medieval England, 1353-1532 (2016)
Book
Goddard, R. (2016). Credit and trade in later medieval England, 1353-1532. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48987-6

The merchant (2014)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2014). The merchant. In S. Rigby, & A. Minnis (Eds.), Historians on Chaucer : the General prologue to the Canterbury tales. Oxford University Press

A Rich Vein? Novel Disseisin and the Trowell Coalmine Case of 1258 (2013)
Journal Article
Goddard, R., & Musson, J. (2013). A Rich Vein? Novel Disseisin and the Trowell Coalmine Case of 1258. English Historical Review, 128(531), 239-262. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cet036

Medieval business networks: St Mary's guild and the borough court in later medieval Nottingham (2012)
Journal Article
Goddard, R. (2013). Medieval business networks: St Mary's guild and the borough court in later medieval Nottingham. Urban History, 40(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926812000600

Historians have suggested that medieval urban guilds played a role in political and commercial networking. Guilds' commercial protectionism was designed to benefit their membership and close ties have been discovered between merchant guilds and urban... Read More about Medieval business networks: St Mary's guild and the borough court in later medieval Nottingham.

Small boroughs and the manorial economy: Enterprise zones or urban failures? (2011)
Journal Article
Goddard, R. (2011). Small boroughs and the manorial economy: Enterprise zones or urban failures?. Past and Present, 210(1), 3-31. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtq058

Surviving recession: English borough courts and commercial contraction, 1350-1500 (2010)
Book Chapter
Goddard, R. (2010). Surviving recession: English borough courts and commercial contraction, 1350-1500. In J. Langdon, M. Müller, & R. Goddard (Eds.), Survival and Discord in Medieval Society: Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer. Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC-EB.6.09070802050003050208010501

Bullish Markets: The Property Market in Thirteenth-Century Coventry (1998)
Journal Article
Goddard, R. (1998). Bullish Markets: The Property Market in Thirteenth-Century Coventry. Midland History, 23(1), 21-39. https://doi.org/10.1179/mdh.1998.23.1.21