Describes the economic life of medieval cities, emphasizing the role of the middle class in developing commerce and municipal institutions This book is the synthesis of long years of study and research by a great historian.
Featuring a new introduction by Michael McCormick, this Princeton Classics edition of Medieval Cities is essential reading for all students of medieval European history.
In the book Pirenne traces the growth of the medieval city from the tenth century to the twelfth, challenging conventional wisdom by attributing the origins of medieval cities to the revival of trade.
Medieval Cities
... 31 Constantinople: gold coinage, access of Southern Italy to, 23; as greatest city in Mediterranean basin, 53–54; ... G., 46n7, 103n14 Dinant, 64, 78, 92, 100 Dnieper, 29, 31, 60 Dominicans, 107–8, 151 domus negotiantum, 13 Dopsch, ...