The Danish resources c. 1000-1550 : growth and recession / by Nils Hybel and Bjørn Poulsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hybel, Nils.

Contributor:

Poulsen, Bjørn, 1955-

Series:

Northern world 1569-1462 ; v. 34.

The Northern world, 1569-1462 ; v. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Denmark--History--To 1241.

Denmark.

History.

Denmark--Economic conditions--To 1241.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

This pioneering work presents the first comprehensive economic history of medieval Denmark. It puts data produced by more than a century of historical research into a new context and includes a multitude of information based on primary research. The book abounds in knowledge of natural and human resources, rural life, urban industries, tax and commodity trade. Arguing that the development of the Danish resources from the eleventh to the middle of the fourteenth century cannot be viewed simply as a period of prosperity, and conversely that the Late Middle Ages were characterized as much by growth as by recession, the book places itself in an international historiogrphical controversy. The Danish Resources will become an indispensable standard work for students of Danish and north European medieval history. Book jacket.

Contents:

The Natural World 1

Woods and Moors 3

Arable Land 25

Marine Resources 45

Climate 59

Human Resources 79

Knowledge and Literacy 81

Population 111

Rural life 141

Villages 143

Manors 165

Rural Resources 197

Urban Industries 225

Towns and Markets 227

Crafts 259

Tax and Trade 297

Rural Levies and Royal Finances 299

Money 323

Commodity Trade 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [403]-429) and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004161924

9004161929

OCLC:

166290710