London, 1100-1600 - The Archaeology of a Capital City - John Schofield
Selling and making
London, 1100-1600 - The Archaeology of a Capital City - John Schofield
John Schofield [+]
Museum of London (retired)
John Schofield is now retired from the Museum of London, and is an archaeologist writing various books and reports. He is archaeologist for St Paul's Cathedral, London, and has produced a large report 'St Paul's Cathedral before Wren', published by English Heritage in 2011. Also in 2011 he published 'London 1100-1600' for Equinox Press, in the series Archaeology of Medieval Europe, of which he is series editor. This book was awarded the London Archaeological Prize for the best archaeological publication in London in the years 2011-12, on 16 November 2012.
Description
This chapter makes a division, for the sake of presentation, between the two activities of selling (trading) and making things. This is arbitrary as craftsmen who made things naturally also sold them; but there were people, such as merchants, who sold things made by others. First, however, there were three kinds of buildings which were characteristic of most of the crafts of both sorts: shops (with the use of adjacent cellars), craft or livery halls, and almshouses