Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1 Introduction 1 -- Ch. 2 The development of the Antwerp market before 1500 17 -- Ch. 3 Antwerp's foreign merchant communities 40 -- Ch. 4 The Germans in Antwerp 60 -- Ch. 5 Commerce and urban networks 95 -- Ch. 6 The infrastructure of Antwerp's German trade 114 -- Ch. 7 Trade between Antwerp and Germany in the sixteenth century 128 -- Ch. 8 German activities in the second half of the sixteenth century and the decline of the Antwerp market 172 -- Ch. 9 The German contribution 184 -- App. 1 Money 191 -- App. 2 Merchants with exports to Germany over 1000 [pound] Flemish Groot (1543-1545) 193 -- App. 3 Total value of exports from Antwerp to various German cities (1543-1545) 195 -- App. 4 Value of principal products exported from Antwerp to South German destinations (1543-1545).

This volume looks at the South German merchant community during Antwerp's Golden Age by examining German involvement in the social life of the city as well as by tracing merchants' commercial activities. The first section of the book considers the institutions of trade and the role Germans played in their development and how Germans interacted with other foreign merchant communities. The second section takes a wider view by tracing the commercial networks that South German merchants operated in and by quantifying South German participation in Antwerp's foreign trade.

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