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Medieval merchants, active before the Renaissance. Subcategories. This category has the following 13 subcategories, out of 13 total. 0–9. 7th-century merchants (7 P)
A merchant is a person who trades in goods produced by other people, especially one who trades with foreign countries. Merchants have been known for as long as humans have engaged in trade and commerce. Merchants and merchant networks operated in ancient Babylonia, Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, Phoenicia and Rome.
The merchants that start from Spain or France go to Sus al-Aksa (in Morocco) and then to Tangier, whence they walk to Kairouan and the capital of Egypt. Thence they go to ar- Ramla , visit Damascus , al- Kufa , Baghdad, and al- Basra , cross Ahvaz , Fars , Kerman , Sind, Hind, and arrive in China.
A medieval merchant's trading house in Southampton, restored to its mid-14th-century appearance. There were some reversals. The attempts of English merchants to break through the Hanseatic league directly into the Baltic markets failed in the domestic political chaos of the Wars of the Roses in the 1460s and 1470s. [117]
The Champagne fairs, sited on ancient land routes and largely self-regulated through the development of the Lex mercatoria ("merchant law"), became an important engine in the reviving economic history of medieval Europe, "veritable nerve centers" [2] serving as a premier market for textiles, leather, fur, and spices.
A medieval merchant's trading house in Southampton, restored to its mid-14th-century appearance. There were some reversals. The attempts of English merchants to break through the Hanseatic league directly into the Baltic markets failed in the domestic political chaos of the Wars of the Roses in the 1460s and 1470s. [208]
Laurence of Ludlow was the son of Nicholas of Ludlow, a prominent Shropshire wool merchant. He amassed a fortune in the medieval English wool trade and established a career as a money lender through his loans to Edward I of England, and other members of the English nobility.
Medieval English merchants active before about 1485, the start of the Tudor Age and a milestone in the Renaissance. See also: Category:15th-century English businesspeople See also: Category:16th-century English businesspeople