Cambridge Economic History of Europe: Vol. 2: Trade and Industry in the Middle AgesM. M. Postan, E Miller Annotation The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, first published in 1952, was a survey by an international group of specialist scholars covering trade and industry in pre-Roman, Roman and Byzantine Europe, the medieval trade of northern and southern Europe, and the histories of medieval woollen manufacture, mining and metallurgy, and building in stone. This second edition, in addition to revising most chapters and the bibliographies appended to them, also fills gaps which arose from the wartime and post-war circumstances in which the first edition was written. New chapters provide accounts of the trade and industry of eastern Europe, of medieval Europe's trade with Asia and Africa, and of medieval coinage and currency. Taken with volumes I and III of the series, this volume is designed to complete a comprehensive review of the economic history of medieval Europe as a whole. It was planned by the late Sir Michael Postan, and was largely completed under his editorship. |
Contents
1 The Size of the Crisis | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 71 |
Crisis and Inflation in the Third Century | 93 |
State Intervention and Economic Decline | 103 |
Summary | 130 |
Syria and Egypt | 136 |
Trade and Industry in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth | 145 |
The Book of | 151 |
The Industries in Classical Times | 693 |
The Course of Production c 300c 1330 | 696 |
Laws and Customs of Medieval Mining | 706 |
The Origin of Medieval Mining Laws and Customs | 715 |
The Collapse of Prosperity in the Fourteenth Century | 721 |
The Progress of Industrial Technology | 723 |
The Boom in Mining and Metallurgy 14601530 | 735 |
The Cleavage between Capital and Labour | 739 |
The Coinage Prices and Taxation | 163 |
The Age of Expansion | 204 |
The Age of Contraction | 240 |
CHAPTER V | 306 |
The Age of the Commercial Revolution | 330 |
CHAPTER VI | 402 |
Early Islamic Trade 6501000 | 415 |
The Primacy of Egypt 9501500 | 421 |
4 The Karimi Merchants 11501500 | 437 |
Muslim Trade in the Far East | 443 |
The Trade of Turkey Iraq and Iran 10501500 | 455 |
Muslim Trade in Africa | 462 |
Conclusion | 472 |
3 The Call of Byzantium | 488 |
The Local Market and Craft Production in Central | 502 |
3 Crafts and Internal Exchange in Russia | 519 |
CHAPTER VIII | 525 |
Trade in Russia | 582 |
Conclusion | 610 |
The Northern Industry in Transition | 621 |
ThirteenthCentury Capitalism | 630 |
The Renaissance of the Italian Industry | 646 |
The Triumph of the English Industry | 674 |
CHAPTER X | 691 |
The Growth in the Authority of the Prince | 746 |
The Transition to Modern Times | 756 |
CHAPTER XI | 762 |
by GWILYM PEREDUR JONES Late Professor in the University of Sheffield I The Demand for Building | 763 |
Technical Capacity and Changes | 766 |
The Supply of Materials and Labour | 768 |
The Management of Large Building Operations | 774 |
Masons Contracts | 777 |
Conditions of Labour | 779 |
Organisation of Craftsmen | 784 |
CHAPTER XII | 788 |
The Denier | 794 |
the Silver Mark the Silver Groat and the Gold Florin | 814 |
The Victory of Gold | 831 |
Money of Account | 839 |
The Silver Famines of the Later Middle Ages | 851 |
Money on the Eve of the Price Revolution | 860 |
A Table of Medieval Money | 864 |
Bibliographies | 874 |
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Other editions - View all
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe: Volume 7, The Industrial Economies ... Peter Mathias,M. M. Postan No preview available - 1978 |
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman ... Edward Miller,Cynthia Postan,M. M. Postan No preview available - 1987 |
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