Steven A. Epstein

An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780521880367
• ISBN-10: 052188036X
• Artikelnr.: 26056924

Autorenporträt

Steven A. Epstein is Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of numerous articles and five books on aspects of medieval social and economic history, including Genoa and the Genoese, 958-1528 and Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000-1400.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Europe at the millennium
2. Agriculture and rural life
3. Trade 1000-1350
4. Cities, guilds, and political economy
5. Economic and social thought
6. The Great Hunger and the Big Death: the calamitous fourteenth century
7. Technology and consumerism
8. War and social unrest
9. Fifteenth-century portraits.