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• Zur Geschichte der Handelsgesellschaften im Mittelalter, Nach Südeuropäischen Quellen (in German; Stuttgart: F. Enke, 1889), by Max Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• Medieval Merchants and Money: Essays in Honour of James L. Bolton (London: Institute of Historical Research, c2016), ed. by Martin Allen and Matthew P. Davies (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Anglo-Castilian Trade in the Later Middle Ages (Manchester: Manchester University Press, c1978), by Wendy R. Childs (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• The French Council of Commerce, 1700-1715: A Study of Mercantilism After Colbert (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1983), by Thomas J. Schaeper (PDF at Ohio State)
• Le Goût Chinois en France au Temps de Louis XIV (in French; Paris: Jouve, 1910), by Hélène Belevitch-Stankevitch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Maritime Enterprise, 1485-1558 (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1913), by James A. Williamson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust, may not be accessible outside the United States.

• Forerunners of Drake: A Study of English Trade With Spain in the Early Tudor Period (London et al.: Pub. for the Royal Empire Society by Longmans, Green and Co., c1954), by Gordon Connell-Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Best of Defoe's Review: An Anthology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951), by Daniel Defoe, ed. by William Lytton Payne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Commercial and Political Atlas: Representing, by Means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, the Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure, and Debts of England, During the Whole of the Eighteenth Century (third edition; printed by T. Burton, 1801), by William Playfair (page images here at Penn)

• The Widening Gate: Bristol and the Atlantic Economy, 1450-1700 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by David Harris Sacks (HTML at UC Press)
• The Merchant Venturers of Bristol: A History of the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol From its Origin to the Present Day (c1975), by Patrick McGrath (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Overseas Trade of London: Exchequer Customs Accounts, 1480-1, ed. by Henry S. Cobb (HTML at British History Online)
• The Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London: Documents, ed. by Brian Dietz (HTML at British History Online)

• Diary and Consultation Book, by Madras (India : Presidency) (partial serial archives)

• Letters Written by the English Residents in Japan, 1611-1623; With Other Documents on the English Trading Settlement in Japan in the Seventeenth Century (Tokyo: The Sankosha, 1900), ed. by Naojirō Murakami and Kengo Murakawa, contrib. by William Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Original Letters of the English Pilot, William Adams, Written From Japan Between A.D. 1611 and 1617: Reprinted From the Papers of the Hakluyt Society (Yokohama: "Japan Gazette" Office, 1896), by William Adams (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monopoly Trade and Economic Stagnation: Studies in the Foreign Trade of Iceland, 1602-1787 (c1983), by Gísli Gunnarsson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Monopoly Trade and Economic Stagnation: Studies in the Foreign Trade of Iceland, 1602-1787 (c1983), by Gísli Gunnarsson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Kathleen Biddick (HTML at UC Press)

• Noblewomen, Aristocracy and Power in the Twelfth-Century Anglo-Norman Realm (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by Susan M. Johns (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Political Strategies in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica (Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2016), ed. by Sarah Kurnick and Joanne Baron
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Matthew Fisher (PDF at Ohio State)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Remember the Hand: Manuscription in Early Medieval Iberia (New York: Fordham University Press, 2023), by Catherine Brown (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, c2004), ed. by Nicola McDonald (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Sir John Hawkwood (L'Acuto): Story of a Condottiere (London: T. F. Unwin, 1889), by John Temple Leader and Giuseppe Marcotti, trans. by Leader Scott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Anglo-Castilian Trade in the Later Middle Ages (Manchester: Manchester University Press, c1978), by Wendy R. Childs (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Third Gender and Aelfric's Lives of Saints (Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, c2018), by Rhonda L. McDaniel (PDF at wmich.edu)
• Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (HTML at UC Press)

• The Fulfillment of the Scriptures: Abraham, Moses, and Piers (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1970), by Ruth M. Ames (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)

• Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire: Ideals and Expectations During the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2019), by Rutger Kramer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Rethinking Authority in the Carolingian Empire: Ideals and Expectations During the Reign of Louis the Pious (813-828) (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2019), by Rutger Kramer
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)

• Fashioning Change: The Trope of Clothing in High- and Late-Medieval England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Andrea Denny-Brown (PDF at Ohio State)

• Meanings of Community across Medieval Eurasia: Comparative Approaches (Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages v25; Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2016), ed. by Eirik Hovden, Christina Lutter, and Walter Pohl
  • PDF with commentary at brill.com
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (second edition; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004), by Mabel L. Lang and John McK. Camp, illust. by Alison Frantz and Craig A. Mauzy (page images at Google)

• The Episcopate in the Kingdom of Leon in the Twelfth Century, by Richard A. Fletcher (PDF files at Libro)

• Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany (c2008), by Erika Lauren Lindgren (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)

• Transcultural Approaches to the Concept of Imperial Rule in the Middle Ages (Frankfurt et al.: P. Lang, c2017), ed. by Christian Scholl, Torben R. Gebhardt, and Jan Clauss
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Les Idées Féministes de Christine de Pisan (thesis in French; 1911), by Rose Rigaud (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Finance and Trade Under Edward III, ed. by George Unwin (HTML at British History Online)

• The Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: Reconstruction on a Thirteenth-Century Frontier ((based on) Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1967), by Robert I. Burns (PDF files at Libro)

• Richard II and the English Royal Treasure: Inventory (originally published Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), by Jenny Stratford (HTML at British History Online)

• Richard II and the English Royal Treasure: Inventory (originally published Woodbridge, UK: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), by Jenny Stratford (HTML at British History Online)

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