Prices and Wages in Later-Medieval, Early Modern England and the Low Countries

Updated: Friday, 30 November 2007 :

Excel Spreadsheets and PDF files providing prices and wages in late-medieval, early-modern England, Flanders, and Brabant

• Munro's Revisions of the Phelps Brown and Hopkins 'basket of consumables' commodity price series and craftsmen's wage series, 1264-1700: An Excel spreadsheet, with annual data and quinquennial means, based on their working papers in the British Library of Political and Economic Science (LSE). Their index numbers have been converted into values in pence sterling, with the annual money-of-account value of the 'basket of consumables'.

• Antwerp: annual wages and prices, 1400 - 1700: in an Excel spreadsheet, based on data compiled by Prof. Herman Van der Wee: annual data and quinquennial means

• Prices and Wages in Brabant, 1400-1700: in an Excel spreadsheet, based on data compiled by Prof. Herman Van der Wee: annual data and quinquennial means

• Prices and Wages in Flanders, 1350 -1500: in an Excel spreadsheet, from data compiled and processed by John H. Munro: annual data and quinquennial means.

• Prices and Wages in Southern England and the Antwerp Region, 1400 - 1700: pdf file, with quinquennial means only: prepared by John H. Munro. See the related Department of Economics Working Paper on this subject. See also the colour graphs of these wages and prices, in an MS-Word file.