Champagne fair
Champagne fairs are the name of the fairs that took place six times a year in different cities in Champagne from the High Middle Ages onwards .
Trade fairs took place a total of six times a year in Troyes , Bar-sur-Aube , Lagny-sur-Marne and Provins . They are verifiable from the middle of the 11th century, in the 12th century they gained in importance. In the 13th century they developed into important transshipment centers for Central Europe. In addition to the trade in goods, the money economy played an important role at the champagne fairs, from the middle of the 13th century it even became more important than trade. Money transactions were mainly in the hands of the Lombards and Tuscans.
At the turn of the 14th century, the trade fairs lost their importance. The decline, which was completed around 1320, is due, among other things, to the shift of the main trade routes to the east, increasing tensions between the Capetians and the Flemish counts and the boom in Italian cloth production.
The masses were under the protection of the Blois Counts .
See also
literature
- M. Bur: Champagne fairs. In: Lexikon des Mittelalters 2, Sp. 1688–1689
- Heinz Thomas : Contributions to the history of the champagne fairs in the 14th century. In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte , Vol. 64 (1977) pp. 433–467.
- Heinz Thomas: The champagne fair. In: Rainer Koch (ed.): Bridge between the peoples - the history of the Frankfurt fair. Volume 1, Frankfurt 1991, pp. 13-36.