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El presente artículo se propone indagar en los fundamentos de la construcción del poderío económico de la elite dirigente del gremio pelaire al interior de la protoindustria textil murciana, desde el último cuarto del siglo XIV hasta fines del siglo XV. Para ello daremos cuenta de los factores de carácter político-institucional que permiten que el sector dirigente de esta corporación subordine a buena parte del artesanado textil local y llegue a disputar el abastecimiento pañero de la ciudad con el sector del capital comercial representado por los traperos murcianos. Con este objeto analizaremos la incidencia de la regulación productiva impulsada por el sector dirigente de este gremio en la construcción de relaciones de explotación.

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It is argued that archaeology and monetary history between them have the potential to project a very different picture of the Roman economy from that suggested by minimalist stereotypes of the latter. It then discusses the implications of this argument for the late antique period in particular, rejecting the catastrophism with which Rostovtzeff famously concluded his own history of the early empire. For the late empire the strength of private interests remained as strong as ever, in an economy characterised more by an integration of private and public business than by any supposed conflict or antagonism between them. The eastern empire encapsulated these tendencies in pure form, with sustained levels of trade and monetary circulation into the main decades of the seventh century. The paper argues that it would be more sensible for historians to think in terms of economic cycles than the conventional pathologies of ‘decline’, ‘decay', etc. This pattern is strikingly evident in Byzantine economic history, marked as it is by sharp fluctuations between the fifth and twelfth centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]