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In the northern parts of Brabant i.e. Antwerp and ’s-Hertogenbosch the demographic and agrarian revival which had started at the end of the fourteenth century continued. Cattle raising flourished. On the numerous abbey farms in the Kempen the first decades of the fifteenth century witnessed an increase in the numbers of oxen, cows and horses 1. Sheep rearing was considerably extended : increasing export duties on English wool 2 resulted in the new drapery becoming no longer exclusively dependent on it. Hop growing spread : it was precisely at that moment that Brabant finally adopted hops for its beer industry 3. Rising flax prices also reflect a considerable demand which could not fail to favour agricultural profits.
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Van Der Wee, H. (1963). The Last Flowering of the Medieval Economy (1406–1437). In: The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3864-0_2
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