Author: Michael Moïssey PostanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520023253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Medieval Economy and Society
Author: Michael Moïssey PostanPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520023253
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The Medieval Economy of Salvation
Author: Adam J. DavisPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501742124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
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.
Essays on Medieval Agriculture and General Problems of the Medieval Economy
Author: M. M. PostanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521088466
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Includes The economic foundations of medieval society, The rise of a money economy, The chronology of labour services and The charters of the villeins.
Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West
Author: Georges DubyPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216745
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
"One of the most important, imaginative, solidly documented, well written books of medieval history that I have ever read. . . . It offers a unique combination of synthetic power and analytic perception, of bold judgment and Cartesian doubt, of hard economic facts and subtle psychological considerations."--
Society and Economy
Author: Mark GranovetterPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674975219
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
A work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology, this first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas stresses that the economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities but is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and constraints as religion, science, politics, or law.
Mills in the Medieval Economy
Author: John LangdonPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199265585
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book examines the evolution of mills - whether powered by water, wind, animals or humans - during an important era of English history. It focuses not only on the structures themselves, but also on the people who acted as entrepreneurs, workers, and customers for the industry. Together they created one of the most recognizable and enduring features of medieval society.
Medieval Economic Thought
Author: Diana WoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521458931
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book is an introduction to medieval economic thought, mainly from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, as it emerges from the works of academic theologians and lawyers and other sources - from Italian merchants' writings to vernacular poetry, Parliamentary legislation, and manorial court rolls. It raises a number of questions based on the Aristotelian idea of the mean, the balance and harmony underlying justice, as applied by medieval thinkers to the changing economy. How could private ownership of property be reconciled with God's gift of the earth to all in common? How could charity balance resources between rich and poor? What was money? What were the just price and the just wage? How was a balance to be achieved between lender and borrower and how did the idea of usury change to reflect this? The answers emerge from a wide variety of ecclesiastical and secular sources.
Economy, Society, and Government in Medieval Italy
Author: R. L. ReynoldsPublisher: [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An Age of Transition?
Author: Christopher DyerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198221665
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This significant new work by a prominent medievalist focusses on the period of transition between 1250 and 1550, when the wealth and power of the great lords was threatened and weakened, and when new social groups emerged and new methods of production were adopted. Professor Dyer examines both the commercial growth of the thirteenth century, and the restructuring of farming, trade, and industry in the fifteenth. The subjects investigated include the balance between individuals andthe collective interests of families and villages. The role of the aristocracy and in particular the gentry are scrutinized, and emphasis placed on the initiatives taken by peasants, traders, and craftsmen. The growth in consumption moved the economy in new directions after 1350, and this encouragedinvestment in productive enterprises. A commercial mentality persisted and grew, and producers, such as farmers, profited from the market. Many people lived on wages, but not enough of them to justify describing the sixteenth century economy as capitalist. The conclusions are supported by research in sources not much used before, such as wills, and non-written evidence, including buildings.Christopher Dyer, who has already published on many aspects of this period, has produced the first full-length study by a single author of the 'transition'. He argues for a reassessment of the whole period, and shows that many features of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries can be found before 1500.
Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Author: Christopher DyerPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300167075
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Dramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He begins his volume with the formation of towns and villages in the ninth and tenth centuries and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century. This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and responded to economic change. He examines the growth of towns, the clearing of lands, the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the upheavals of the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who experienced them. He also explores the dilemmas and decisions of those who were making a living in a changing world—from peasants, artisans, and wage earners to barons and monks. Drawing on archaeological and landscape evidence along with more conventional archives and records, the author offers here an engaging survey of British medieval economic history unrivaled in breadth and clarity.