Minoritarian Entrepreneurs: Pottery, Commerce and Urbanisation in Medieval (c.1200–1350) England

The potential of a minoritarian approach to medieval economic development, utilising a
concept of entrepreneurship is examined. It is proposed that whilst the tracing of pottery exchange
networks provides a representation of commercial development, attending to the entrepreneurial
actions of institutions and potters generates insights into economic development which challenge
linear narratives and frame economic development as emerging as a patchwork of socio-material
relations.