Mediaeval Trade and Finance
Mediaeval Trade and Finance

Author: Michael Moïssey Postan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1973-06-21

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780521522021

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A collection of Professor Postan's major essays on medieval trade and finance.

Medieval Economic Thought
Medieval Economic Thought

Author: Diana Wood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-10-17

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780521458931

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This book is an introduction to medieval economic thought, mainly from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, as it emerges from the works of academic theologians and lawyers and other sources - from Italian merchants' writings to vernacular poetry, Parliamentary legislation, and manorial court rolls. It raises a number of questions based on the Aristotelian idea of the mean, the balance and harmony underlying justice, as applied by medieval thinkers to the changing economy. How could private ownership of property be reconciled with God's gift of the earth to all in common? How could charity balance resources between rich and poor? What was money? What were the just price and the just wage? How was a balance to be achieved between lender and borrower and how did the idea of usury change to reflect this? The answers emerge from a wide variety of ecclesiastical and secular sources.

Agriculture in the Middle Ages
Agriculture in the Middle Ages

Author: Del Sweeney

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 151280777X

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Explores the cultural framework within which changes in agricultural technology and economic organization occur and the ways in which changes in the social fabric influence attitudes toward rural work and the peasantry.

Land and Family
Land and Family

Author: John Mullan

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9781902806952

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Medieval peasant families are closely identified with the land to which they had a hereditary right, especially in periods of land scarcity. This book concerns the tension between the contrasting trends in the study of village life, showing how they were affected by changes over time and place.

A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Middle Ages
A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Middle Ages

Author: Louise J. Wilkinson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-03-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 135099524X

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The Middle Ages (800–1400) were a rich and vibrant period in the history of European culture, society, and intellectual thought. Emerging state powers, economic expansion and contraction, the growing influence of the Christian Church, and demographic change all influenced the ideals and realities of childhood and family life. Movements for Church reform brought the spiritual and moral concerns of the laity into sharper focus, profoundly shaping attitudes towards gender and sexuality and how these might be applied to family roles. At the same time, the growth of trade, the spread of literacy and learning, shifting patterns of settlement, and the process of urbanization transformed childhood. This volume explores the ideas and practices which underpinned contemporary perceptions of childhood in the medieval West, and illuminates the enduring importance of the family as a dynamic economic, political, and social unit. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Middle Ages presents essays on family relationships, community, economy, geography and the environment, education, life cycle, the state, faith and religion, health and science, and world contexts.