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Acknowledgements; Contents; Abbreviations and Editorial Notes; Editorial Notes; 1: Introduction; 2: Economic Ethics; The Origins ofßEthical Concepts andßSome Major Exponents; Theologians andßMoral Philosophers inßLate Medieval England; Conclusions; 3: The Translation ofßEconomic Ethics into theßDaily Practices ofßtheßLaity; Criticisms; Excess Wealth andßSocial Inequality; The Sinful Nature ofßAvarice or Covetousness; Avarice asßtheßCause ofßEconomic Injustice; Particular Kinds ofßEconomic Injustice; Non-payment ofßDebts andßUsury.
Ravine, Extortion andßUnjust Acquisition: TheßAbuses ofßLords andßGentry Purveying Abuses: Economic Injustice by Lords andßMonarchs; Other Non-mercantile Types ofßMisconduct; Remedies; The Virtues ofßJustice andßEquity; Kings andßEconomic Justice; Good Lordship Versus Bad Lordship; Making Restitution, Punishment andßSpiritual Discipline; Conclusions; 4: Wealth andßLordship inßLate Medieval Literature; Criticism ofßLords andßJustifications ofßWealth; The Role ofßKings inßEconomic Ethics; The Failures ofßKnights andßLords; The Ideal Society: Social Order andßtheßVirtues.
Conclusions5: The Application ofßTheory: TheßLanguage ofßEconomic Ethics inßStatutes andßPetitions; Regulating forßEconomic Injustice; Seeking Redress forßEconomic Injustice; Case Studies; Abuses ofßPurveying; Extortion andßOppression by Lords andßGentry; Extortion by Officials, Unreasonable Tolls andßFines; Enclosures; Conclusions; 6: Lords ofßtheßManor: Rapacious orßReasonable?; Evidence fromßManors; Rents andßEntry Fines inßGeneral: TheßProblem ofßDetermining Whether or Not They Were Excessive; Examples ofßRents andßEntry Fine Assessments: Wakefield andßHalesowen.
The Burden ofßServices Versus Numbers ofßFree Tenants Poor Tenants andßTheir Treatment; Amercements andßOther Fines; Tallage; Exploitation Versus theßPower ofßCustom; Wills; The Evidence ofßRestitution inßWills; Conclusion; 7: Merchants andßLandowners' Responses toßEconomic Ethics; The Evidence ofßLetters andßPapers; The Ideal ofßWorshipfulness, Trust, Payment ofßDebts andßtheßImportance ofßShame; Where Ethics Were Ignored: Distraints, Bribery, Speculation andßChevisances; Sir John Fastolf: Perceptions ofßAvarice andßIts Worldly Justification; Fastolf Makes Amends; Conclusion.
8: ConclusionBibliography; Primary Sources; Early Printed Editions; Modern Printed Editions; Secondary Sources; Online Sources; Index.
Ravine, Extortion andßUnjust Acquisition: TheßAbuses ofßLords andßGentry Purveying Abuses: Economic Injustice by Lords andßMonarchs; Other Non-mercantile Types ofßMisconduct; Remedies; The Virtues ofßJustice andßEquity; Kings andßEconomic Justice; Good Lordship Versus Bad Lordship; Making Restitution, Punishment andßSpiritual Discipline; Conclusions; 4: Wealth andßLordship inßLate Medieval Literature; Criticism ofßLords andßJustifications ofßWealth; The Role ofßKings inßEconomic Ethics; The Failures ofßKnights andßLords; The Ideal Society: Social Order andßtheßVirtues.
Conclusions5: The Application ofßTheory: TheßLanguage ofßEconomic Ethics inßStatutes andßPetitions; Regulating forßEconomic Injustice; Seeking Redress forßEconomic Injustice; Case Studies; Abuses ofßPurveying; Extortion andßOppression by Lords andßGentry; Extortion by Officials, Unreasonable Tolls andßFines; Enclosures; Conclusions; 6: Lords ofßtheßManor: Rapacious orßReasonable?; Evidence fromßManors; Rents andßEntry Fines inßGeneral: TheßProblem ofßDetermining Whether or Not They Were Excessive; Examples ofßRents andßEntry Fine Assessments: Wakefield andßHalesowen.
The Burden ofßServices Versus Numbers ofßFree Tenants Poor Tenants andßTheir Treatment; Amercements andßOther Fines; Tallage; Exploitation Versus theßPower ofßCustom; Wills; The Evidence ofßRestitution inßWills; Conclusion; 7: Merchants andßLandowners' Responses toßEconomic Ethics; The Evidence ofßLetters andßPapers; The Ideal ofßWorshipfulness, Trust, Payment ofßDebts andßtheßImportance ofßShame; Where Ethics Were Ignored: Distraints, Bribery, Speculation andßChevisances; Sir John Fastolf: Perceptions ofßAvarice andßIts Worldly Justification; Fastolf Makes Amends; Conclusion.
8: ConclusionBibliography; Primary Sources; Early Printed Editions; Modern Printed Editions; Secondary Sources; Online Sources; Index.