English Markets and Royal Administration before 1200
Richard Britnell
A REGULAR relationship between early markets and hundredal organization has sometimes been suggested, but never explored. Studies of administration3 have not illuminated the association local trade government which students Anglo-Saxon law were led to expect.4 The separate development economic legal studies caused original problem recede from view, so that relevant questions are no nearer an answer now than they seventy years ago. Yet extent private in Middle Ages was facilitated, obstructed, or regulated by institutions enough interest merit investigation for its own sake as well bearing on marketing later better-documented periods.
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