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Cambridge University Press 0521819210 - Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390 James M. Murray Index More information Index Aachen, St. Mary’s chapel in, Charlemagne’s Arnulf I, Count, 45, 47, 362 church, 362 Arquato, Bartholomeo de (notary public), 271 Aalter, 41, 42 Arques, treaty of, 13 Aardenburg, 13, 23, 28, 38, 39, 62, 220, 282 Arras, 45, 323 Acciaiuoli company, 230 Artevelde, Jacob van, 15, 85, 108, 350 Ackerman, Francis, 357 politics of, 15–16 Adornes, family of, 185–186, 192 death of, 16 Anselm, 192 Artevelde, Philip van, 19, 164, 350, 356 Jacob, 186 politics of, 19 Pieter, 164, 186 Artiaus, Foukaut d’, 247 Advent (Adventus, Entry, Blijde Inkomst, artisans, 82 Intochten), 344, 360 Artois, 39, 40, 99 count’s 1384, 361, 363–364 Artrike, Simon van, 176 liturgy of, 364–366 Assenede, 39 long-term implications of, 367 assizes, 173 Ake, Trude and Pieter van, 211 on wine and beer, 95, 105, 115, 172, 324 hostel of, 320 on mead, 115 exchange of, 320 Athis-sur-Orge, treaty of, 8, 10, 13 Alberti, Antonio de, 270 Auderve, Stevin van (drayman), 136 aldermen (schepenen, ´echevins), 7, 17, 20, 37, 41, Augustinians, 54, 73, 92, 225 62, 63, 68, 92, 114, 116, 331 abbey of Eekhout, 93 alehouses, 76 abbey of St. Trudo, 93 alewife, 302 Ausebourc, Le Demisielle van, 323 Alsace, comital house of, 38 Peter van, 323 Dirk of, 364 Auweele, Dirk van den, 116 amber, 370 avaintage, 296 Amelakens, Celie (Ghent money changer), 313 Avignon, 234 Amerov, Baernt, 247 Amsterdam, 259 bakers, 101 Antwerp, 144, 175, 178, 212, 239, 249, 253, 259, Baldwin I “Iron Arm,” Count, 362 266 Judith, wife of, 362 annexation to Flanders, 253 Baldwin II, Count, 28 fairs of, 253–254 Baldwin V, Count, 44, 47 financial relations with Bruges, 253–254 as founder of fairs, 44 Hermant, changer in, 254 Baltic, 229 market of, 175 banking English wool staple in, 253 “bank” money, 166 Aragon, 223 deposit, 149, 150, 155, 242 Armentieres,` 281 international, 229–230 armorers, 70 Italian, 231–232 Arnade, Peter, 367 modern, 122 393 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521819210 - Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390 James M. Murray Index More information 394 Index barber/surgeons, 36 Bilherse and company, 100 Barbezaen (Barbesaen), family of, 186 bill of exchange, 122, 229, 230, 231, 264 Niclaas, 115, 186, 201, 202 Binche, 320 Barcelona, 232, 242, 280 Binchois, Gilles, 363 Bardi company, 230, 261 Biscay, Bay of, 40 barnecamer, 132, 296 Blandain, Jakemard (moneylender, bastion, 56 pawnbroker), 147–148 Bataille, Alard (operator of the pawnshop “Het Blankenberge (Blankenberghe), 11, 24 Zwaard”), 142 Blois, Jean de, 247 bathhouse, 78–80, 82, 306, 332, 339, 340 Blomenrode, Tideman (money changer), 144, geography in Bruges, 79, 80 163, 268 scene of, 301 Boin Adone, Conrart, 204 Bave, family of, 203 Boinebroke, Jean, 262 Clais, 203 bond, discountable, 122 Jacop, 203 Bonin, family of, 116 Bavenkove, Jan de, 70 Demoiselle de, 322 Becket, Thomas, 226 Jehan, 255, 322 beer and wine, 308 Boomgarde consumption of, 115 Clays van den, 359 Hanse dealers in, 207 Willeme van den, 359 German, in Bruges, 208 Bordeaux, region of, 102 Beghards, 92, 93 bordello, 327, 330 begijnhof (beguinage), 48, 92, 93–94, 329 Bossche, Pieter van den, 19 of Bruges, founding of, 51–53 Boston, 238 curtis or court, 53, 93, 94 Bouchoute, Jan van, 132 St. Obrecht’s, 93 Bouts, Mathijs (brewer), 135 beguines, 93, 94 Braamberg (Bruges neighborhood), 54 as prostitutes, 329 Brabant, 45, 100, 127, 149, 150, 290 as teachers, 94 duke of, 239 Belfry (Belfort), 1, 64, 260 fairs of, 180 fire of 1280, 1–3 Braems, Trude, 201 as commercial building, 63–65 Breydel, Jan, 5 as watch post, 62 brick, 61 Bennett, Judith, 302 brickyard, 61 Bergen-op-Zoom, 178 Brittany, 258, 324 Bergenfahrer, 228 Brittany, duchess of, 270 Berghe, Tideman van de, 130, 195, 248 Brochons Berneem, Jan van, 203 Jakemes, 256 Berove, Henric van, 185 Thierry (money changer), 256, 297 Berswort, Lambert, 257 brokers/hostellers, 111, 113, 115, 117, 305, 309, 350, Berwick, 273 353 Beurs (Bourse, Beurze), 74, 76, 178, 180, 190, city regulations, 198 224, 338 chapel of, 197 of Antwerp, 214, 215 corporation of, 186–190, 196 Bruges as embryo of, 214–215 financial relationships with customers, 202 origins of, 178–180 guildhouse and grounds of, 197 square (Beursplein), 2, 76, 152, 179, 192, 205, guild official of, 197 221, 231 economic advantage of hostellers, 188–189 Beurse, van de, family of, 116, 179, 227 foreigners admitted to the guild, 186 Clais, 247, 324 guild of, 15, 85, 182 holdings of, 181 internal contradiction in, 187 Jan, 115 lodging of foreign merchants, 242 Matheus, 163, 324 political and economic struggle between, 188 Beverhoudsveld, battle of, 19, 98 popularity of, 187–188 Biervliet, 39 privileges of 1303, 198 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521819210 - Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390 James M. Murray Index More information Index 395 tapping the wealth of Bruges, 189–190 fair of, 44, 68, 71, 96, 117, 180, 219, 289, 305, merchants in wool trade, 276 328, 369 see also hostellers famine relief, 101 brothel, 80–81, 82, 327, 329 female immigration, 86 owners of, in Bruges, 340–341 financial relations with Antwerp, 253–254 Bruges, 130, 303 financial workings of oligarchy, 116–117 accounts of, 39, 290, 309 fire of 1184, 61 access to the sea, 38 fires in, 62 administration, 65 fire fighting, 62 artists in, 370 first walling of, 48 assizes, 173 fishing rights, 59 as training ground for foreign merchants, food markets of, 68 175 foreign merchants visiting in, 191;as bailiff of, 331 percentage of population, 305; resident in, bankers of, 370 73–74, 95, 97, 218–219, 224, 304–305 banking in, 210, 236 fortifications of, 55–57 bathhouses, 332, 337, 339, 340 gallo-Roman, 23 building boom in, 50–53 geology of, 23–24 bullion market in, 158, 297 Ghent war, 347–351, 356 burgomaster of the Course, 157 governmental system of, 114–115 Burgundian city, 360–368, 369–370, 372 grain prices in, 41 Cahorsins of, 144–145, 240, 371–372 guild control over Sluis, 36 central market square of, 1 harbors of, 28–38 canal building, 39 housing the urban poor, 352–354, 356 city gates, 58, 60 immigrant poorters in, 108 citizenship in, 304 immigration, 107–110, 117 clergy community of, 94 infrastructure of, 59–61 the cloth city, 277, 282–283 inland hydrography of, 25 cloth emporium, 288–295 internal politics, 1305–1322, 8–9 city privilege of (1127), 48 internal waterways, 38–42 city privilege of (1304), 7–8 international banking center, 229–258 city government, 17 Italian colonies in, 224 cloth purchases of, 290, 291 keuren, 282, 283, 308 cloth varieties available in, 290 land development in, 51 coin possession in, 131–133 loan to city by pawnbrokers, 141 commercial axis, 73 loans to, 163 commercial infrastructure of, 180 luxury goods, 370 commercial spaces and buildings, 63 market for English wool, 275–276 commericial topography, 45–47 market of, 170, 176, 190, 229, 241 conquest by French in 1297, 4 market network, 67–68, 219 copyists in, 370 mendicant orders in, 54–55 crane of, 72 merchants of, 274 credit and debt, 134–138 militia of, 15, 17, 97, 136, 187 credit/payment system, 210–215 money market of, 177 dams and sluices of, 27 money supply in, 130–133 deelmannen, 316, 331 musicians, 368 demographic impact of famine, 101 neighborhood ruling councils, 114 development to 1200, 49 as neural network, 217 drink in, 74–76 number of guilds, 110 early history, 23–24 oath to count, 366–367 economic peak of, 108 office holders, 115 English colony in, 264 official response to prostitution, 328–330, 331 exchange of wool for spices with England, organization and supervision of money 237–238 changing, 155–157 excise taxes, 161 parishes of, 52, 53, 92 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521819210 - Bruges, Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390 James M. Murray Index More information 396 Index Bruges (cont.) bullion, 256, 270, 295 paving streets, 59 delivery to the mint, 297 pawnbroking in, 139–141 forms of, 295 payment place, 245 quantities traded, 297, 298 Pied Friars in, 54 trade in, 155, 158 place name origins, 24 buitenpoorter, 12 plague mortality, 104, 105 Burg of Bruges, 20, 45–47, 48, 55, 57, 68–71, 81, political oligarchy, 17, 115–116, 117 265, 346 politics of the Jacob van Artevelde period, Burg square, 2, 68, 361 15–16 Burgomaster of the Course, 157 poor of, 89–92 Burgundy population, 50, 84–85, 86, 87, 88 cloth of, 280 population history of, 106 duke of, 248 private building in, 61–62 marshall of, 193 privileges of, 366 Burgundy, ducal house of, 345 professional and political structures, 110–117 using financiers of Bruges, 371 prostitution in, 79, 303 residence in Bruges, 371 prostitution statistics, 336 business prostitutes, 331–336 Italian, 217 provisioning of, 40–41 techniques of, 122 rate of immigration, 108 butchers, 350 red-light district, 338 butter market (Boterhuis), 67 relations with Ghent, 249–250 relationship with Louis of Male, 16 cabarets, 75, 193, 199, 206 reorientation of cloth industry, 295 Cahorsins, 138, 240 residential architecture of, 371 credit network of, 139 roads and streets, 44–62 Calais, 237, 267 Roman past of, 23 money changers of, 237, 249 roofs and roofing in English wool staple in, 240 , 61–62 siege of, 267 sales point of West Flemish, French cloth, 289 Calf, Jan (hosteller), 145 sayetterie, 282, 284, 294 Calkere (family of money changers), 151, 164, Scandinavian influence, 24 310 second walling of, 56, 57, 58–59, 81 Nicholaus, 151 shipping, 236 Caloccio, di (pawnbrokers),