Bibliography - The Medieval World 1200 - 1500 (HI127)

Economic Life

Bautier, R.-H., The Economic Development of Medieval Europe (London, 1971)
Brundage, James A., ‘Usury’ in Joseph R. Strayer et al. (eds.), Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York, 1982-89), vol. 12, pp. 335-9.
Day, John, The Medieval Market Economy (Oxford, 1987)
Le Goff, Jacques, Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago, 1980)
Mollat, Michel, The Poor in the Middle Ages, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New Haven, 1986)
Postan, M.M., et al. (eds.), The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, vol. 2: Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, 1987)
Pounds, N., An Economic History of Medieval Europe, 2nd ed. (London, 1994)

Urban Growth

Holt, Richard, and Rosser, Gervase, (eds.), The Medieval Town: A Reader in English Urban History (1200-1540) (London, 1990)
Nicholas, David, The Growth of the Medieval City (Harlow, 1997)
Nicholas, David, The Later Medieval City (Harlow, 1997)
Pirenne, Henri, Medieval Cities, trans. Frank D. Halsey (Princeton, 1925)

The Commerical Revolution

Hunt, Edwin S., and Murray, James M., A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 (Cambridge, 1999)
Lopez, Robert S., The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages 950-1350 (Cambridge, 1976)
Lopez, Robert S. et al. (eds. and trans.), Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World (1955; rept. 2001) [An important collection of documents]
Nicholas, David, Medieval Flanders (London, 1992)

The Black Death

Herlihy, David, The Black Death and the Transformation of the West, ed. Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., 1997)
Horrox, Rosemary (ed. and trans.), The Black Death (Manchester, 1994) [An important collection of documents]
Ormrod, Mark, and Lindley, Phillip (eds.), The Black Death in England (Stamford, 1996). Especially J.L. Bolton, ‘Plague as an Agent of Economic and Social Change’, pp. 17-78.
Platt, Colin, King Death: The Black Death and its Aftermath in Late Medieval England (London, 1996)
Twigg, Graham, The Black Death: A Biological Reappraisal (London, 1984)
Ziegler, Philip, The Black Death, 2nd ed. (Harmondsworth, 1998)

The Late Medieval Economy

Campbell, Bruce (ed.), Before the Black Death (Manchester, 1991)
Cipolla, Carlo M., ‘The Economic Depression of the Renaissance?’, Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 16 (1964), 519-24.
Dyer, Christopher, Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages: Social Change in England, 1200-1520, rev. ed. (Cambridge, 1998)
Epstein, S.R., ‘Regional Fairs, Institutional Innovation, and Economic Growth in Late-Medieval Europe’, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 47 (1994), 459-82.
Goldthwaite, Richard A., Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy 1300-1600 (Baltimore and London, 1993)
Hatcher, John, ‘England in the Aftermath of the Black Death’, Past and Present 144 (1994), 3-35.
Hatcher, John, Plague, Population and the English Economy 1348-1530 (London, 1977)
Hunt, Edwin S., and Murray, James M., A History of Business in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 (Cambridge, 1999)
Jordan, William C., The Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century (Princeton, NJ, 1996)
Kershaw, Ian, ‘The Great Famine and the Agrarian Crisis in England, 1315-1322’, Past and Present 59 (1973), 3-50.
Lopez, Robert S., ‘Hard Times and Investment in Culture’, in Anthony Molho (ed), Social and Economic Foundations of the Italian Renaissance (New York, 1969), pp. 95-116.
Lopez, Robert S., and Miskimin, Harry A., ‘The Economic Depression of the Renaissance’, Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 14 (1962), 408-26.
Lopez, Robert S., and Miskimin, Harry A., ‘The Economic Depression of the Renaissance?’, Economic History Review, 2nd ser., 16 (1964), 525-9.
Lopez, Robert S. et al. (eds. and trans.), Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World (1955; rept. 2001)
Nicholas, David, Medieval Flanders (London, 1992)
Nightingale, Pamela, ‘England and the Economic Depression of the Mid-Fifteenth Century’, Journal of European Economic History, 26:3 (1997), 631-56.