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SUMMARY:The Durham Ox: Values and Prices in the Medieval Northeast - Eliza
 beth Gemmill (Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Prices are a critical measure of the workings of any money eco
 nomy. They tell us about the impact of weather and climate\, plague\, war\
 , demographic change\, money supply\, access to markets and trade. Most of
  what we think we know about the behaviour of prices in later medieval Eng
 land is based on evidence from the midlands\, East Anglia\, and the south.
  We also tend to take the figures within existing price series as ‘given
 ’. This paper\, based on research in the archives of Durham Priory\, off
 ers a new approach. It looks beyond the figures themselves to the circumst
 ances of the transactions that produced them such as the relationships bet
 ween the parties involved and the effect on prices of quantities\, quality
 \, processing\, and carriage. Some prices were annual valuations of render
 s in kind made by the monastic landlord in light of harvest conditions\; o
 thers were fixed by contracts lasting over several years\; others yet were
  the subject of commercial negotiations. The behaviour of all prices\, how
 ever\, shows that the economic history of the northeast\, while certainly 
 subject to many of the influences experienced in other regions\, neverthel
 ess has its own distinctive story to tell.
LOCATION:Room 6\, Faculty of History
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