The Medieval Economy and Society
Author | : Michael Moïssey Postan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520023253 |
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Author | : Michael Moïssey Postan |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780520023253 |
Author | : Michael Moïssey Postan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1993-01-01 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9780140137477 |
Author | : Adam J. Davis |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2019-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501742124 |
In The Medieval Economy of Salvation, Adam J. Davis shows how the burgeoning commercial economy of western Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, alongside an emerging culture of Christian charity, led to the establishment of hundreds of hospitals and leper houses. Focusing on the county of Champagne, he looks at the ways in which charitable organizations and individuals—townspeople, merchants, aristocrats, and ecclesiastics—saw in these new institutions a means of infusing charitable giving and service with new social significance and heightened expectations of spiritual rewards. In tracing the rise of the medieval hospital during a period of intense urbanization and the transition from a gift economy to a commercial one, Davis makes clear how embedded this charitable institution was in the wider social, cultural, religious, and economic fabric of medieval life.
Author | : Gerald A. Hodgett |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1136583149 |
This excellent and concise summary of the social and economic history of Europe in the Middle Ages examines the changing patterns and developments in agriculture, commerce, trade, industry and transport that took place during the millennium between the fall of the Roman Empire and the discovery of the New World. After outlining the trends in demography, prices, rent, and wages and in the patterns of settlement and cultivation, the author also summarizes the basic research done in the last twenty-five years in many aspects of the social and economic history of medieval Europe, citing French, German and Italian works as well as English. Significantly, this study surveys the present state of discussion on a number of on unresolved issues and controversies, and in some areas suggests common sense answers. Some of the problems of economic growth, or the lack of it, are looked at in the light of current theories in sociology and economic thought. This classic text, first published in 1972, makes a useful and interesting general introduction for students of medieval and economic history.
Author | : Steven Epstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-04-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 052188036X |
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, such as capitalism, and the social theories that would have a profound influence on the rest of the world over the next five centuries. The basic story, the human search for food, clothing, and shelter in a world of violence and scarcity, is a familiar one, and the work and daily routines of ordinary women and men are the focus of this volume. 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. Epstein also sets social and economic developments within the context of the Christian culture and values that were common across Europe and that were in constant tension with Muslims, Jews, and dissidents within its boundaries and the great Islamic and Tartar states on its frontier.