An economic and social history of later medieval Europe, 1000-1500
From the Publisher: This book examines the most important themes in European social and economic history from the beginning of growth around the year 1000 to the first wave of global exchange in the 1490s. These five hundred years witnessed the rise of economic systems, such as capitalism, and the s...
| Main Author: | Epstein, Steven, 1952- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge, England ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
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| Online Access: |
Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Europe at the millennium
- Agriculture and rural life
- Trade 1000-1350
- Cities, guilds, and political economy
- Economic and social thought
- The great hunger and the big death: the calamitous fourteenth century
- Technology and consumerism
- War and social unrest
- Fifteenth-century portraits.