Life and work in medieval Europe
By: P. Boissonnade ; translated, with a foreword, by Eileen Power
Edition: Unabridged republication of the work published by Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd. London, 1927
Publisher: Dover Publications, Inc.
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Mineola, N.Y.
ISBN-13: 9780486419879
Subjects: Working class -- Europe -- History; Economic history -- Medieval, 500-1500; Industries -- Europe -- History; Europe -- Social conditions; Middle Ages
Genres: History; Economics
First sentence: With the fifth century there begins a long period of a thousand years known as the Middle Ages, in the course of which were accomplished some of the greatest social and economic changes in the whole history of labour.
Notes: Originally published in French in 1921 under title: Le travail dans l’Europe chrétienne au moyen âge (Ve-XVe siècles).
Reprint of the 1927 English ed.
Translated, with a foreword, by Eileen Power.
Cover design by Jeff A. Menges .
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Eileen Power; title: Author's preface; title: Book I: Labour in Christian Europe during the early Middle Ages. The invasions; The work of destruction and attempts at reconstruction, fifth to tenth centuries; title: Book II. The restoration, emancipation, achievements, and apogee of labour in Christian Europe from the middle of the tenth to the middle of the fourteenth century; title: Book III. The close of the Middle Ages, birth of capitalism and a national economy. The century of revolutions (1340-1453); title: General conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Index