A Social And Economic History of Medieval Europe

by Hodgett,Gerald A.

• ISBN13: 9780415377072
• ISBN10: 0415377072
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This excellent and concise summary of the social and economic history of Europe in the Middle Ages examines the changing patterns and developments in agriculture, commerce, trade, industry and transport that took place during the millennium between the fall of the Roman Empire and the discovery of the New World. After outlining the trends in demography, prices, rent, and wages and in the patterns of settlement and cultivation, the author also summarizes the basic research done in the last twenty-five years in many aspects of the social and economic history of medieval Europe, citing French, German and Italian works as well as English. Significantly, this study surveys the present state of discussion on a number of on unresolved issues and controversies, and in some areas suggests common sense answers. Some of the problems of economic growth, or the lack of it, are looked at in the light of current theories in sociology and economic thought. This classic text, first published in 1972,makes a useful and interesting general introduction for students of medieval and economic history.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
A changing Europe	p. 1
Rural change and expansion to c. 1000	p. 13
The growth of the manor	p. 24
Trade and commerce in the early Middle Ages	p. 36
The revival of trade and the growth of towns	p. 48
The organization of trade in Italy: credit and banking	p. 59
Medieval European trade: south and north	p. 72
Economic growth in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries	p. 88
Medieval transport	p. 106
The developed areas of medieval Europe: Byzantium and Cordoba	p. 113
Industry in the Middle Ages: building	p. 127
Industry in the Middle Ages: textiles	p. 137
Mining and the metallurgical industries in the Middle Ages	p. 157
Medieval agrarian society at its zenith: tenurial relations	p. 166
Medieval agrarian society at its zenith: the working of the land, techniques and crops	p. 185
Decline and change: rebirth and new horizons	p. 199
Bibliography	p. 219
Index	p. 237
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