A clear and readable account of the development of the European economy and its infrastructure from the second century to 1500. Professor Pounds provides a balanced view of the many controversies within the subject, and he has a particular gift for bringing a human dimension to its technicalities. He deals with continental Europe as a whole, including an unusually rich treatment of Eastern Europe. For this welcome new edition -- the first in twenty years -- text and bibliography have been reworked and updated throughout, and the book redesigned and reset.
This classic text, first published in 1972, makes a useful and interesting general introduction for students of medieval and economic history.
"In this book, Henri Pirenne, the great Belgian economic historian, traces the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the...
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.
The Medieval Economy and Society: An Economic History of Britain, 1100-1500
The Economic Development of Medieval Europe
In updating this classic work to a third edition, the additional author now enables students to see history in action; the diverse viewpoints and important research that has been undertaken since Davis’ second edition, and progressed ...
This is the law of the Fullers and Weavers of Winchester : Be it known that no weaver or fuller may dry or dye cloth nor go outside the city to sell it . They may sell their cloth to no foreigner , but only to merchants of the city .
He offers illuminating comment on a wide range of subjects--on guilds and guild organization, on women and Jews in the work force, on the value given labor, and on the sources of disaffection.
Studies Presented to F. M. Stenton , ed . R. H. M. Dolley , London , Pp . 23-38 . Whyte , I. D. 1995 , Climatic Change and Human Society , London . Wickersheimer , F. 1966 , Les manuscrits latins de médecine du haut moyen âge dans les ...
... of a number of people who might have been Jewish in mid9th century Salerno. yet another Salernitan doctor some hundred and fifty years later was clearly so, as was one in. 57 Jacoby, 1991: 499. 58 roth, 1946: 86. ashtor, 1980: 423, ...