1. For a good introduction to the ‘spatiality of consumption’, read J. Stobart, A. Hann and V. Morgan, Spaces of Consumption: Leisure and Shopping in the English town, c. 1680–1830 (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 18–22.
2. M. Limberger, ‘“No town in the world provides more advantages”: Economies of Agglomeration and the Golden Age of Antwerp’, in P. O’Brian (ed.), Urban Achievement in Early Modern Europe: Golden Ages in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 39–62.
3. J. De Vries, European Urbanization, 1500–1800 (London: Methuen, 1984), appendix 1.
4. I. Van Damme, (2003) ‘Het vertrek van Mercurius. Historiografische en hypothetische verkenningen van het economisch wedervaren van Antwerpen in de tweede helft van de zeventiende eeuw’, NEHA-Jaarboek, 66 (2003), 6–39.
5. H. Van Der Wee, ‘Industrial Dynamics and the Process of Urbanization and De-urbanization in the Low Countries from the late Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century: A Synthesis’, in H. Van Der Wee (ed.), The Rise and Decline of Urban Industries in Italy and in the Low Countries (Late Middle Ages — Early Modern Times) (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 1988), pp. 307–81.