THE MEDIÆVAL ECONOMY IN ITS PRIME, 1340-1540
THE MEDIÆVAL ECONOMY IN ITS PRIME, 1340-1540
This course examines that process of European integration, as economic development, stimulated by the contemporary mining boom of the years 1250-1392/1412, caused per capita incomes in Poland, Hungary and particularly Bohemia to equilibrate upwards to the levels prevailing in western Europe. It explores changes in the international economy and the process of regional specialisation, which in Western Europe, against the background of demographic decline, allowed the population to enjoy a standard of living, which was not surpassed until 1885. .
COURSE ORGANIZATION
LECTURES-SEMINARS
INTRODUCTION
1. Central- and south-eastern Europe to the thirteenth century.
CENTRAL- AND SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE, 1280-1520
2. Central Europe (Poland, Bohemia and Hungary). Silver production, market-urban systems and agricultural change.
3. South-eastern Europe (Serbia and Bosnia). Silver Production,
market-urban systems and agricultural change.
Reading Lectures-Seminars 1-3
M Malowist, "The problem of the inequality of economic development in Europe in the later Middle Ages", Economic History Review, Second Series, XIX, 2 (1966), pp.17-23
Antoni Maczak, - H Samsonowicz, - Peter Burke, (eds.), East-Central Europe in Transition 14-17th centuries (Cambridge, 1985)
Blanchard, Ian, The Medieval Economy in its Prime, chapters 1-3
These may be supplemented by various papers presented at the Leeds International Congress
CENTRAL- AND SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AND THE
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY, 1280-1520
4. International Monetary and Commercial Systems.
John Day, "The Great Bullion Famine of the Fifteenth Century", Past and Present, no. 79 (1978), pp.3-53
Ian Blanchard, "Le marché ègyptien des éspeces et la crise de l'or au quinzième siècle", unpublished paper presented at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 1985 [translation]
5. Plague and Changes in the "Real" Economy.
S P Epstein, "The late medieval crisis as an 'integration crisis', 1350-1550" in Maarten Prak (ed.), Early Modern Capitalism. Economic and Social Change in Europe, 1400-1800 (London & New York, 2001)
Ian Blanchard 'Consumption and Hierarchy in English Peasant Society, 1400-1600', Chicago Economic History Workshop Papers, No.20 (1980), pp.1-12.
CONCLUSION
6. Mediæval economic growth in historical perspective:
a case-study
of Britain in the Middle Ages and after.
G D Snooks, Economics Without Time (London, 1993), chapter 7, pages 231-269, 278-9, 296-301
You should use this opportunity to consult the English language lecture notes & reading on the topics of lectures-seminars 1-3 on CEU, Budapest-Edinburgh University site of those papers presented at the Leeds International Congress
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