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The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350

Author : Robert S. Lopez

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 28,53 MB

Release : 1976-03-26

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780521290463

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Roman and barbarian precedents The growth of self-centered agriculture The take-off of the commerical revolution The uneven diffusion of commercialization Between crafts and industry The response of the agricultural society.





Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages

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Publisher : BRILL

Page : 374 pages

File Size : 48,67 MB

Release : 2019-02-11

Category : History

ISBN : 9004383093

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Reading Medieval Sources is an exciting new series which leads scholars and students into some of the most challenging and rewarding sources from the European Middle Ages, and introduces the most important approaches to understanding them. Written by an international team of twelve leading scholars, this volume Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages presents a set of fresh and insightful perspectives that demonstrate the rich potential of this source material to all scholars of medieval history and culture. It includes coverage of major developments in monetary history, set into their economic and political context, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives that address money and coinage in relation to archaeology, anthropology and medieval literature. Contributors are Nanouschka Myrberg Burström, Elizabeth Edwards, Gaspar Feliu, Anna Gannon, Richard Kelleher, Bill Maurer, Nick Mayhew, Rory Naismith, Philipp Robinson Rössner, Alessia Rovelli, Lucia Travaini, and Andrew Woods.



On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State

Author : Joseph R. Strayer

Publisher : Princeton University Press

Page : 143 pages

File Size : 28,34 MB

Release : 2011-07-01

Category : History

ISBN : 1400828570

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The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600. Inspired by a lifetime of teaching and research, On the Medieval Origins of the Modern State is a classic work on what is known about the early history of the European state. This short, clear book book explores the European state in its infancy, especially in institutional developments in the administration of justice and finance. Forewords from Charles Tilly and William Chester Jordan demonstrate the perennial importance of Joseph Strayer's book, and situate it within a contemporary context. Tilly demonstrates how Strayer’s work has set the agenda for a whole generation of historical analysts, not only in medieval history but also in the comparative study of state formation. William Chester Jordan's foreword examines the scholarly and pedagogical setting within which Strayer produced his book, and how this both enhanced its accessibility and informed its focus on peculiarly English and French accomplishments in early state formation.



Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600

Author : Martha C. Howell

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 379 pages

File Size : 23,28 MB

Release : 2010-04-12

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0521760461

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Later generations have sometimes found such actions perplexing, often dismissing them as evidence that business people of the late medieval and early modern worlds did not fully understand market rules.



A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550

Author : Edwin S. Hunt

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 292 pages

File Size : 40,60 MB

Release : 1999-03-28

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780521499231

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This book demolishes the widely held view that the phrase 'medieval business' is an oxymoron. The authors review the entire range of business in medieval western Europe, probing its Roman and Christian heritage to discover the economic and political forces that shaped the organization of agriculture, manufacturing, construction, mining, transportation and marketing. Businessmen's responses to the devastating plagues, famines, and warfare that beset Europe in the late Middle Ages are equally well covered. Medieval businessmen's remarkable success in coping with this hostile new environment was 'a harvest of adversity' that prepared the way for the economic expansion of the sixteenth century. Two main themes run through this book. First, the force and direction of business development in this period stemmed primarily from the demands of the elite. Second, the lasting legacy of medieval businessmen was less their skillful adaptations of imported inventions than their brilliant innovations in business organization.



Magic in the Middle Ages

Author : Richard Kieckhefer

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 18,11 MB

Release : 2021-09-09

Category : History

ISBN : 1108861121

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How was magic practiced in medieval times? How did it relate to the diverse beliefs and practices that characterized this fascinating period? This much revised and expanded new edition of Magic in the Middle Ages surveys the growth and development of magic in medieval Europe. It takes into account the extensive new developments in the history of medieval magic in recent years, featuring new material on angel magic, the archaeology of magic, and the magical efficacy of words and imagination. Richard Kieckhefer shows how magic represents a crossroads in medieval life and culture, examining its relationship and relevance to religion, science, philosophy, art, literature, and politics. In surveying the different types of magic that were used, the kinds of people who practiced magic, and the reasoning behind their beliefs, Kieckhefer shows how magic served as a point of contact between the popular and elite classes, how the reality of magical beliefs is reflected in the fiction of medieval literature, and how the persecution of magic and witchcraft led to changes in the law.



Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe

Author : Henri Pirenne

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 266 pages

File Size : 39,79 MB

Release : 2015-10-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1136788557

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First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in 1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century.



Handbook to Life in the Medieval World, 3-Volume Set

Author : Madeleine Pelner Cosman

Publisher : Infobase Publishing

Page : 987 pages

File Size : 13,69 MB

Release : 2009-01-01

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ISBN : 1438109075

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Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the



The Medieval Frontiers of Latin Christendom

Author : Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 416 pages

File Size : 39,73 MB

Release : 2017-05-15

Category : History

ISBN : 1351885766

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The aim of this first volume in the series "The Expansion of Latin Europe" is to sketch the outlines of medieval expansion, illustrating some of the major topics that historians have examined in the course of demonstrating the links between medieval and modern experiences. The articles reprinted here show that European expansion began not in 1492 following Columbus's voyages but earlier as European Christian society re-arose from the ruins of the Carolingian Empire. The two phases of expansion were linked but the second period did not simply replicate the medieval experience. Medieval expansion occurred as farmers, merchants, and missionaries reduced forests to farmland and pasture, created new towns, and converted the peoples encountered along the frontiers to Christianity. Later colonizers subsequently adapted the medieval experience to suit their new frontiers in the New World.