Economic and social history of Europe in the later Middle Ages (1300-1530)
Publisher: F. Ungar Pub. Co.
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 545
Subjects: Middle Ages -- History.; Europe -- Economic conditions.; Europe -- Social conditions.
Description: France under Philip the Fair (1285-1314) and the last Capetians (1314-1328) -- Background of the hundred years' war. Wool and wine. The conflict between France and England over the cloth trade of Flanders and wine production in Gascony -- First period of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1380) -- Town leagues in Germany -- The Hanseatic league -- The Teutonic Knights in Prussia and the Baltic lands -- The commerce and industry of southern Germany in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Eastern Europe- Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, Wallachia and Moldavia -- Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The Florentine woollen industry in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The fiscal and economic policy of the papacy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- Second period of the Hundred Years' War (1380-1453) -- Flanders under the dukes of Burgundy (1369-1477) -- Spain in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries -- The Balkan peninsula, Greece and the Levant -- The black death --The gilds and the formation of the patriciate in the towns. The proletariate and the conflict of classes -- Banking during the renaissance -- The origin of modern business methods -- France at the end of the middle ages (1461-1515) -- Germany, Italy and Spain at the end of the middle ages -- On the threshold of modern times.
Table of contents: title: France under Philip the Fair (1285-1314) and the last Capetians (1314-1328); title: Background of the hundred years' war.  Wool and wine.  The conflict between France and England over the cloth trade of Flanders and wine production in Gascony; title: First period of the Hundred Years' War (1337-1380); title: Town leagues in Germany; title: The Hanseatic league; title: The Teutonic Knights in Prussia and the Baltic lands; title: The commerce and industry of southern Germany in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; title: Eastern Europe- Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, Wallachia and Moldavia; title: Italy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; title: The Florentine woollen industry in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; title: The fiscal and economic policy of the papacy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; title: Second period of the Hundred Years' War (1380-1453); title: Flanders under the dukes of Burgundy (1369-1477); title: Spain in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; title: The Balkan peninsula, Greece and the Levant; title: The black death; title: The gilds and the formation of the patriciate in the towns.  The proletariate and the conflict of classes; title: Banking during the renaissance; title: The origin of modern business methods; title: France at the end of the middle ages (1461-1515); title: Germany, Italy and Spain at the end of the middle ages; title: On the threshold of modern times.