An Economic History of Medieval Europe

1976 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 368
Author(s):  
K. F. Drew ◽  
N. J. G. Pounds
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
History Of

The Cambridge Economic History: The Medieval Period

1963 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-223
Author(s):  
Frederic C. Lane
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
The Impact

When requested in the spring of 1961 to review the overdue third volume of The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, I read eagerly the proof copy sent me and then wrote this review, fearing that if I delayed until the volume was actually out the lapse of time would dull my reactions. Time had already blunted the impact of some of the contributions, for example, the opening essay, “The Rise of Towns,” by H. van Werveke. No wonder, since he finished writing it, as he tells us in a footnote, in 1940 (sic), and retouched it in 1953 and 1956 Such long-suffering contributors deserve to be reviewed before 1963, but only in this year has the Cambridge University Press finally released the last of the three volumes planned as an authoritative and balanced account of the economic life of Medieval Europe.

An Economic History of Medieval Europe.

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
I. Blanchard ◽  
N. J. G. Pounds
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
History Of

Land, Family and Women in Continental Europe, 701-1200

Traditio ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 89-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Herlihy
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Household Economy ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of

In reconstructing the social and economic history of the early Middle Ages, perhaps the single, most salient obstacle to our research is the scant amount of information we possess concerning the household economy of the lay family, how the family managed its lands and divided its labors among its members. Our sources, overwhelmingly ecclesiastical in provenience, tell us fairly much of the organization of Church properties, and, through a few surviving royal records, we have some information too about royal estates. But at all times in medieval Europe, non-royal lay families owned or controlled the larger portion of the soil. We must try to learn more about how these propertied families managed their estates, and how internal family structure may have been affected by, or in turn may have influenced broader economic and social changes.

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