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Dr RICHARD GODDARD's Outputs (8)

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.

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.

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.