Business at Home in Medieval Colchester

Richard Britnell

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This paper was originally delivered as 'Sales from Private Houses in Medieval English Towns', at a session on Urban Economy and Society, organised by Professor Mayranne Kowaleski for the 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 8-12 May, 1996. It’s substance is now in print as sections 6.3 and 6.4 in ‘Markets, Shops, Inns, Taverns and Private Houses in Medieval English Trade’, in B. Blondé, P. Stabel, J. Stobart and I. Van Damme, eds, Buyers, Sellers: Retail Circuits and Practices in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), 9 (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2006), 109-23.