Medieval market morality: life, law and ethics in the English marketplace, 1200-1500

Introduction : Market trade and traders ; The commercialisation of English society ; The transition from feudalism to capitalism ; Morality in the pre-industrial marketplace

Images of market trade : History and literature ; Sources of morality ; Medieval social theory ; Avarice and trade ; Price and profit ; Usury ; Bargaining and oaths ; False words and false wares ; False weight and measures ; Customers and 'lyther bargaining' ; The merchant ; Market traders, hawkers and victuallers ; Middlemen and hoarding ; Livelihood and credit ; Repentance and punishment

Regulation of the market : Part I. The forums of regulation : National legislation ; Seigneurial markets ; Chartered boroughs ; Lot and scot ; Strangers and foreigners ; Borough government ; Craft guilds

Part II. The public marketplace : Regulating the public marketplace ; Sunday trading ; Order and sanitation ; Weights and measures ; Coinage ; Bargaining and sale ; Consumer protection ; Credit, debt and trust ; Merchant law ; Femme sole ; Usury ; Quality and fraud ; Price and profit ; The assizes of bread, ale and wine ; Administering the assizes ; Middlemen ; Punishment

The behaviour of market traders : The markets of Suffolk : Part I. The small town markets of Newmarket and Clare : Newmarket and its marketing hinterland ; Clare and its marketing hinterland ; Sources, courts and officials ; The assizes of bread and ale ; Regrating and forestalling ; Weights and measures ; Innkeepers and cooks ; Quality and the consumer ; Credit and debt ; Administering the marketplace ; Enterprise and the efficiency ; Piety and morality

Part II. The borough market of Ipswich : The government and courts of Ipswich ; The assizes of bread and ale ; Regraters ; Innkeepers ; Butchers, cooks and fishmongers ; Forestallers ; The market environment

An evolving market morality : Profit and the commonweal in the early modern economy ; Early modern retailers ; Middlemen and dearth ; Thompson's moral economy

Conclusion.