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An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 (Paperback)
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An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe, 1000-1500 (Paperback)
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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. These five
hundred years witnessed the rise of economic systems, such as
capitalism, and the social theories that would have a profound
influence on the rest of the world over the next five centuries.
The basic story, the human search for food, clothing, and shelter
in a world of violence and scarcity, is a familiar one, and the
work and daily routines of ordinary women and men are the focus of
this volume. Surveying the full extent of Europe, from east to west
and north to south, Steven Epstein illuminates family life,
economic and social thought, war, technologies, and other major
themes while giving equal attention to developments in trade,
crafts, and agriculture. The great waves of famine and then plague
in the fourteenth century provide the centerpiece of a book that
seeks to explain the causes of Europe s uneven prosperity and its
response to catastrophic levels of death. Epstein also sets social
and economic developments within the context of the Christian
culture and values that were common across Europe and that were in
constant tension with Muslims, Jews, and dissidents within its
boundaries and the great Islamic and Tartar states on its
frontier."
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