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Immigration and the Common Profit: Native Cloth Workers, Flemish Exiles, and Royal Policy in Fourteenth-Century London (2016)
Journal Article
Lambert, B., & Pajic, M. (2016). Immigration and the Common Profit: Native Cloth Workers, Flemish Exiles, and Royal Policy in Fourteenth-Century London. Journal of British Studies, 55(04), 633-657. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2016.75

Drawing on a wide variety of published and unpublished sources, this article reconstructs a crucial episode in the relationship between the English Crown, its native subjects and the kingdom’s immigrant population during the later Middle Ages. Determ... Read More about Immigration and the Common Profit: Native Cloth Workers, Flemish Exiles, and Royal Policy in Fourteenth-Century London.

Merchants on the Margins: Fifteenth-Century Bruges and the Informal Market (2016)
Journal Article
Lambert, B. (2016). Merchants on the Margins: Fifteenth-Century Bruges and the Informal Market. Journal of Medieval History, 42(2), 226-253. https://doi.org/10.1080/03044181.2016.1141366

During the late medieval period, the Flemish city of Bruges acted as the prime hub of international trade in Northwestern Europe, with the town of Sluys as its outport. Trade along the Zwin, the waterway connecting the city to the sea, was subject to... Read More about Merchants on the Margins: Fifteenth-Century Bruges and the Informal Market.

A Matter of Trust: The Royal Regulation of England's French Residents during Wartime, 1294-1377 (2016)
Journal Article
Lambert, B., & Ormrod, W. M. (2016). A Matter of Trust: The Royal Regulation of England's French Residents during Wartime, 1294-1377. Historical Research, 89(244), 208-226. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.12127

This study focuses on how the English crown identified and categorized French-born people in the kingdom during the preliminaries and first stage of the Hundred Years War. Unlike the treatment of alien priories and nobles holding lands on both sides... Read More about A Matter of Trust: The Royal Regulation of England's French Residents during Wartime, 1294-1377.

Friendly Foreigners: International Warfare, Resident Aliens and the Early History of Denization in England, c.1250–c.1400 (2015)
Journal Article
Lambert, B., & Ormrod, W. M. (2015). Friendly Foreigners: International Warfare, Resident Aliens and the Early History of Denization in England, c.1250–c.1400. The English Historical Review, 130(542), 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceu344

The search for the origins of the process of denization in England has traditionally focused on the needs of merchants and the context of international trade, and no credible explanation has been given for why denization emerged as a recognisable Cha... Read More about Friendly Foreigners: International Warfare, Resident Aliens and the Early History of Denization in England, c.1250–c.1400.

Drapery in Exile: Edward III, Colchester and the Flemings, 1351–1367 (2014)
Journal Article
Lambert, B., & Pajic, M. (2014). Drapery in Exile: Edward III, Colchester and the Flemings, 1351–1367. History, 99(338), 733-753. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.12077

Throughout the fourteenth century, Edward III issued several letters of protection encouraging Flemish textile workers to establish their trade in England. During the centuries that followed, historians have disagreed about the newcomers' contributio... Read More about Drapery in Exile: Edward III, Colchester and the Flemings, 1351–1367.

Cities of Commerce, Cities of Constraints. International Trade, Government Institutions and the Law of Commerce in Later Medieval Bruges and the Burgundian State (2014)
Journal Article
Dumolyn, J., & Lambert, B. (2014). Cities of Commerce, Cities of Constraints. International Trade, Government Institutions and the Law of Commerce in Later Medieval Bruges and the Burgundian State. The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, 11(4), 89-102. https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.171

This article argues that, to do justice to the institutional context of international trade in the later medieval Low Countries, a legal-historical study is necessary. Instead of considering commercial exchange from the perspective of mono-causal exp... Read More about Cities of Commerce, Cities of Constraints. International Trade, Government Institutions and the Law of Commerce in Later Medieval Bruges and the Burgundian State.