An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000–1500
- Author: Steven A. Epstein, University of Kansas
- Date Published: April 2009
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521880367
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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, and the social theories that would have a profound influence on the rest of the world over the next five centuries. Surveying the full extent of Europe, from east to west and north to south, Steven Epstein illuminates family life, economic and social thought, war, technologies, and other major themes while giving equal attention to developments in trade, crafts, and agriculture. The great waves of famine and then plague in the fourteenth century provide the centerpiece of a book that seeks to explain the causes of Europe's uneven prosperity and its response to catastrophic levels of death.
Read more- The first new text on this subject in decades; equal attention is paid to economic and social history, and to all parts of Europe
- Numerous maps and illustrations
- Written for students, this is a short book on a big subject
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'The clarity and precision of Steven Epstein's survey of the history of the later medieval economy are without doubt two of its most wonderful features. Students and seasoned scholars alike will actually relish reading the book. … This book is synthesis of a very high order.' William Chester Jordan, Princeton University and author of The Great Famine
See more reviews'This is a masterful book that brings together the most recent research on economic and social history in a sophisticated yet accessible manner. … The book is a tour de force, whose modest tone will obscure (intentionally) to the casual reader and undergraduate student its striking originality. Epstein consistently offers unique juxtapositions of information and possesses such command of complex current economic theory that he is able to incorporate it effortless into his discussion of medieval event. This is a superb work of scholarship and exciting new source for teaching.' William Caferro, Vanderbilt University
'… an impressive and very well written survey of European economic and social history from 1000 to 1500. … it provides an enjoyable read.' Speculum
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- Date Published: April 2009
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521880367
- length: 304 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.58kg
- contains: 36 b/w illus. 10 maps 1 table
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Europe at the millennium
2. Agriculture and rural life
3. Trade 1000–1350
4. Cities, guilds, and political economy
5. Economic and social thought
6. The Great Hunger and the Big Death: the calamitous fourteenth century
7. Technology and consumerism
8. War and social unrest
9. Fifteenth-century portraits.
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