Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century

The techniques and insights of modern social science are applied to early medieval history in this extraordinary work. Professor Duby offers a chronological account of the European economy from its primitive beginnings, through a period when an extensive trading community developed, to an era when circulation of money and urban growth came to overshadow agricultural activities. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of the history of the countryside, particularly the French countryside, he has authoritatively identified the moving forces behind economic behavior and economic growth in the early Middle Ages.

-- "Speculum"

Author: Georges Duby
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 04/30/1978
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.41h x 5.32w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780801491696

About the Author

Georges Duby holds the chair in the Social History of the Middle Ages at the Collège de France.