www.medievalists.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/1219-45.jpg?w=1182&ssl=1 1182w, “Now thrive the Armourers”: The Development of the Armourers’ Crafts and the Forging of Fourteenth-century London
By Brad Kirkland
PhD Dissertation, University of York, 2015
Abstract: This thesis ultimately seeks to understand how and why the London armourers came to be so closely associated with the politics and uprisings of London’s controversial mayor, John Northampton (1381-1383). However, because the armourers were not incorporated as a combined guild until 1453, this thesis must first analyse how the armourers developed as an industry, and how their workshop, household, and socioindustrial networks and organisations developed and helped to inform their political identities.
This is the first time that the fourteenth-century London armourers have been rigorously examined as a collective of constituent specialist industries, and this thesis contributes to an understanding of how late medieval small crafts developed outside of guilds.
Through examining armourers’ workshops, households, and socio-industrial networks, this thesis arrives at several important conclusions about the nature of the English industry in the fourteenth century which challenge existing scholarship. It finds evidence to explode scholarly myths that English armour was cheap and poorly made through lack of skill, that women did not participate in the industry, and that regulation of the industry was entirely imposed from outside.
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