"London Merchants and Their Wealth in the Reign of Richard II" by Carol M. Miller
 

Date of Award

8-1978

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

History

First Advisor

Ronald E. Zupko

Abstract

In some ways Horatio Alger would have felt much at home in medieval London. Like their Gothamite counterparts of a later century, Whittington's contemporaries found wealth to be a road to prestige and respectability. Rich merchants were the probi homines, those whose possession of weighty, earthly cares was assumed to entail a sober sense of responsibility which made them preferred as churchwardens. Their houses awed fellow citizens as much as brownstone fronts on Madison Avenue would have, perhaps even more. Several showplaces originally meant for merchants, such as John Pulteyney's Coldharbour, ended in the hands of the nobility.

Comments

An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for· the Degree of Master of Arts, Milwaukee, WI

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