Author: Harilaos Kitsikopoulos Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136467610 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
Agrarian Change and Crisis in Europe, 1200-1500 addresses one of the classic subjects on economic history: the process of aggregate economic growth and the crisis that engulfed the European continent during the late Middle Ages. This was not an ordinary crisis. During the period 1200-1500, Europe witnessed endemic episodes of famine and a wave of plague epidemics that amounted to one of its worst health crises, rivaled only by the Justinian plague in the sixth century. These challenges called into question the production of goods and services and the distribution of wealth, opening the possibility of fundamental systemic change. This book offers an empirical synthesis on a host of economic, demographic, and technological developments which characterized the period 1200-1500. It covers virtually the entire continent and places equal emphasis both on providing a solid factual framework and comparing and contrasting various theoretical interpretations. The broad geographical and conceptual scope of the book renders it indispensable not only for undergraduate students who take courses relating to the economic and social life of the Middle Ages but also to more advanced scholars who often specialize in only one country or region.
Author: Teófilo F. Ruiz Publisher: Grupo Planeta (GBS) ISBN: 9788484327554 Category : History Languages : es Pages : 310
Book Description
El año 1300, que en España se identificaba todavía en los documentos como era de 1338, usando un calendario distinto al del resto de Europa, se iniciaron para los reinos hispánicos unos siglos de crisis que no iban a finalizar hasta el ascenso al poder de los Reyes Católicos. David Nirenberg, profesor de la Universidad de Chicago, ha dicho de esta obra: «Epidemias, cruzadas, guerras civiles y príncipes fratricidas: no hay mejor introducción a la caótica historia política y cultural de la España de los siglos XIV y XV, que este libro lleno de vida, escrito por quien es un investigador destacado, un maestro ejemplar y el decano de los historiadores hispanistas.»
Author: Adam Franklin-Lyons Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271092114 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 267
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In the late fourteenth century, the medieval Crown of Aragon experienced a series of food crises that created conflict and led to widespread starvation. Adam Franklin-Lyons applies contemporary understandings of complex human disasters, vulnerability, and resilience to explain how these famines occurred and to describe more accurately who suffered and why. Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon details the social causes and responses to three events of varying magnitude that struck the western Mediterranean: the minor food shortage of 1372, the serious but short-lived crisis of 1384–85, and the major famine of 1374–76, the worst famine of the century in the region. Shifts in military action, international competition, and violent attempts to control trade routes created systemic panic and widespread starvation—which in turn influenced decades of economic policy, social practices, and even the course of geopolitical conflicts, such as the War of the Two Pedros and the papal schism in Italy. Providing new insights into the intersecting factors that led to famine in the fourteenth-century Mediterranean, this deeply researched, convincingly argued book presents tools and models that are broadly applicable to any historical study of vulnerabilities in the human food supply. It will be of interest to scholars of medieval Iberia and the medieval Mediterranean as well as to historians of food and of economics.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 900431136X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 327
Book Description
In “The Making of Europe”: Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett, a group of distinguished contributors analyse processes of conquest, colonization and cultural change in Europe in the tenth to fourteenth centuries. They assess and develop theses presented by Robert Bartlett in his famous book of that name. The geographical scope extends from Iceland to the Islamic Mediterranean, from Spain to Poland. Themes covered range from law to salt production, from aristocratic culture in the Christian West to Islamic views of Christendom. Like the volume that it honours, the present book extends our understanding of both medieval and present day Europe. Contributors are Sverre Bagge, Piotr Górecki, John Hudson, Hugh Kennedy, Simon MacLean, William Ian Miller, Esther Pascua Echegaray, Ana Rodriguez, Matthew Strickland, John Tolan, Bjorn Weiler, and Stephen D. White. This is an excellent collection of essays that do justice to Rob Bartlett’s inexhaustible book, The Making of Europe. Rather than merely repeating and venerating Bartlett’s ideas, the essays engage creatively and critically with them and spark new ideas and insights that cast a flood of light on the culture of medieval Europe. The result is a worthy tribute that will send readers scurrying back to Bartlett to quarry yet more nuggets from The Making of Europe, still fizzing with intellectual brio some twenty years after its publication. Stuart Airlie, University of Glasgow October 2015
Author: Ross Balzaretti Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191083267 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 592
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A comprehensive survey of recent work in Medieval Italian history and archaeology by an international cast of contributors, arranged within a broader context of studies on other regions and major historical transitions in Europe, c.400 to c.1400CE. Each of the contributors reflect on the contribution made to the field by Chris Wickham, whose own work spans studies based on close archival work, to broad and ambitious statements on economic and social change in the transition from Roman to medieval Europe, and the value of comparing this across time and space.
Author: Joseph F. O'Callaghan Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004110960 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 400
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This collection of essays provides new insight based on archival research into the medieval formation of human institutions of government, hospitals and warfare in Spain and England.
Author: Jordi Catalan Vidal Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031245024 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 503
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This edited collection presents an economic history of Catalonia and its economic crises, from Roman times to the political difficulties of the present day. It considers how the strong identity of the Catalan people has been reinforced in critical episodes such as the commercial revolution of the Late Medieval Age, the 1640 rebellion, the Succession War of 1705-1714, the industrial revolution of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the strong repression during early Francoism. The book also explores how historical parallels from Catalonia’s past might shed light on the long-term consequences of the Great Recession of 2007-9 and recovery in the EU, showing how the typical Mediterranean approach of adjusting to crises by depreciating currencies and expanding public deficits has been less straightforward during the most recent financial crisis. A particularly deep slump has contributed to fostering the claim for independence of Catalonia in recent times, echoing larger dissatisfaction with EU monetary policy. With a comprehensive overview of major events in Catalonian economic history and their broader implications to European political economy and development, this book will be of interest to students and academics in economic history, social history, and monetary economics.
Author: Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini. Settimana di studio Publisher: Firenze University Press ISBN: 8884535859 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 642
Author: Harilaos Kitsikopoulos
Author: Teófilo F. Ruiz
Author: Francesco Ammannati
Author: Adam Franklin-Lyons
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Author: Ross Balzaretti
Author: Joseph F. O'Callaghan
Author: Teofilo F. Ruiz
Author: Jordi Catalan Vidal
Author: Istituto internazionale di storia economica F. Datini. Settimana di studio