Medieval international trade centered on cloth, grains, wines, and luxury goods.

Evidence

In northern Europe, these exports joined wool and woolen cloth as the major bases of international trade. In southern Europe-more precisely the Mediterranean-the long-distance trade in cloth (wool, silk, and later cotton), grains, and wines came to complement a significant trade in luxury goods: The precious stuffs from the east found their way into every rich household, and so did the specialities of various European regions: amber and furs from the countries bordering on the Baltic; objets d’art such as paintings from Flanders, embroidery from England, enamels from Limoges; manuscript books for church, boudoir or library; fine armor and weapons from Milan and glass from Venice. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 153

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