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.
This book examines the most important themes in European social and economic history from the year 1000 to the 1490s.
Steven A. Epstein is Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of numerous articles and five books on aspects of medieval social and economic history, including Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528 and Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1400.
'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
'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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