Economic and social history of medieval Europe
By: Henri Pirenne
Series: A Harvest book -- HB-14
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Published: 1937
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Middle Ages.; Europe -- Economic conditions.; Europe -- Social conditions.
Description: "In this book, Henri Pirenne, the great Belgian economic historian, traces the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century. From the breakup of the economic equilibrium of the ancient world to the revival of commerce, the redevelopment of credit, the trade of commodities, the origins of urban industry, and the rebirth of new forms of protectionism, mercantilism, and capitalism, Pirenne presents as complete a picture of the medieval world as is possible in one volume." -- Back cover.
Notes: "Translated from the French by I.B. Clegg."

"First appeared in 'Histoire du moyen âge' by Henri Pirenne, Gustave Cohen and Henri Focillon."

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