Wilhelm Abel's study of economic fluctuations over a period of
seven hundred years has long been established as a core text in
European agricultural history. Professor Abel was one of the first
economic historians to make extensive use of statistical data, and
his scholarship and approach have had a decisive effect on the
orientation of economic and agricultural history. Using data on
population, wages and rents from England, France, Germany and the
Low Countries, and, on occasion, from Italy, Scandinavia and
Poland, here Professor Abel demonstrates the striking similarity in
the overall economic development for all these areas. He also
analyses, the short-term fluctuations that have affected
agricultural development within this economic framework, and is
able to show the broad significance of the shape of the late
medieval depression, the scale of the desertions of villages that
accompanies it, and the implications of the sixteenth century price
revolution. The book's importance lies in tracing the long-term
trends that have characterized European economic development since
the High Middle Ages, and as such it has made an invaluable
contribution to all comparative analyses of different Western
European countries since it was first published in 1980.
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