Minoritarian entrepreneurs
Pottery, commerce and urbanisation in medieval England (c. AD 1200-1350)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3527104 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ben Jervi (0000-0001-5295-0647, University of Leicester, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 406 |
| Pages | 1098-1113 |
| Publication date | 2025-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Antiquity Publications (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.15184/aqy.2025.70 |
| OpenAlex | W4411139436 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
From the perspective of the present, the economic development of preceding periods can seem linear and inevitable, guided into being by those who benefitted most from increasing commercialisation. Yet this majoritarian narrative belies the importance of the individual and the everyday, of adaptation and creativity. Here, the author explores the potential of a minoritarian approach to entrepreneurship, in understanding medieval economic development. In tracing pottery-exchange networks as a representation of commercial development, they argue that the entrepreneurial actions of institutions and potters generate insights into economic development that challenge linear narratives, framing it as a patchwork of sociomaterial relations
Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Pottery · Urbanization · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · History · Medieval Literature and History
Commune, Country and Commonwealth
Pottery in the Roman world
The Brenner Debate
The Origin of Capitalism in England, 1400–1600
Thinking Through Networks
Itinerant Assemblages and Material Networks
Documentary Evidence and the Medieval Pottery Industry
Small Boroughs and the Manorial Economy
The Creative Response in Economic History
The history of entrepreneurship
Network Analysis and Entanglement
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Medieval waterways and hydraulic economics
Consumption and the ‘Social Self’ in Medieval Southern England
Feudalism and the Origins of Capitalism
The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |