Late Medieval Ipswich: Trade and Industry

[Reveals] much of significance about the late medieval economy. ― ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW

[F]irst-class, pathbreaking study a meticulously researched and notably well-written examination of the ‘trade and industry’ […] of late medieval […] Ipswich. Amor’s book will be of particular interest to maritime historians, especially to students of the history of England’s fisheries […] Amor’s book is a welcome addition to the standard literature on the economic history of East Anglia in the later medieval and early modern eras. ― PROCEEDINGS OF THE SUFFOLK INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY & HISTORY

The book is logically and clearly structured, readable, and admorably grounded in archival research in local and national repositories […] Such a clear study will be welcome to economic and local historians alike. ― THE RICARDIAN

[A] valuable addition to local urban studies […] the author has succeeded in marshalling an impressive array of evidence from what are often intractable and patchy sources, and deployed it in a persuasive account of one town’s experience in the economic squalls of the fifteenth century. ― THE LOCAL HISTORIAN

Makes a substantive and useful contribution to a long and distinguished tradition of scholarship on the economic and social history of medieval English towns […] a richly-textured account of the urban experience in a late-medieval port town on England’s east coast. ― THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW

[A] treasure trove of material for historians of all types […] Ipswich has been neglected as a medieval town, lying as it does in the shadow of others, this book will do much to draw attention back to a town full worthy of it. ― DEBEN RADIO