The Beginnings of English Overseas Enterprise; A Prelude to the Empire
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9720397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eileen Edna Power, C P Lucas, Caroline Lucas |
| Year | 1917 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 108 |
| Pages | 542 |
| Publication date | 1917-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2222250 |
| OpenAlex | W2313898924 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
a great resort for merchants and trading vessels.Û nder the Anglo-Saxon and Danish kings trade went on.The latter-day story of our Empire teaches that the mission-field is also the resort of the trader, and the introduction of Christianity into England must have meant an increase of com- mercial as well as spiritual communication between the island and Western Europe.English merchants were busy on the Continent in the days of Charlemagne, ^and there was a complaint that at that time the Anglo-Saxons exported garments of smaller size than formerly.^WhileKing Alfred's and King Edgar's ships kept the Narrow Seas, traders could cross and recross the Channel in safety ; and under Edgar's minister, Dunstan, foreign merchants multiplied in London.When the Danish king, Canute, gave peace to England and joined her to Scandinavia, the North Sea was, for the time being, under one strong hand, and sea-borne traffic must have been abundant.Honest trade there was in these early centuries, and there was also a nefarious slave traffic.According to the old story, it was the spectacle of Anglo-Saxon boys for sale in the slave-market at Rome that led to the mission of ' Annals, xiv.33.* See The League between Carolus Magnus and Offa King of Mercia concerning safe trade of the English merchants in
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |