1st Edition

A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe

By Gerald A. Hodgett Copyright 2006
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. A Changing Europe

2. Rural change and expansion to c.1000

3. The growth of the manor

4. Trade adn commerce in the early Middle Ages

5. the revival of trade and the growth of towns

6. The organization of trade in Italy: credit and banking

7. Medieval European trade: south and north

8. Economic growth in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries

9. Medieval transport

10. The developed areas of medieval Europe: Byzantium and Cordoba

11. Industry in the Middle Ages: Building

12. Industry in the Middle Ages: textiles

13. Mining and metallurgical industries in the Middle Ages

14. Medieval agrarian society at its zenith: tenurial relations

15. Medieval agrarian society at its zenith: the working of the land, techniques and crops

16. Decline and change: rebirth and new horizons.

Biography

Gerald A. Hodgett