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Demographic & Economic Sources
Population:
Medieval Sourcebook: Tables on Population in Medieval Europe.
Medieval Demography - Essays by Josiah C. Russell (AMS, 1987)
Population in Europe 500-1500 (J C Russell, in Fontana Economic History of Europe, 1972)
Compilation of source material: Medieval English Demography.pdf
Urban Demography & Economics:
Florilegium Urbanum - collection of primary sources on urban life.
Medieval English Towns - at ORB.
The Growth of the Medieval City (Nicholas, Longman, 1997)
The German Hansa (Dollinger, MacMillan, 1970)
Life in a Medieval City (Gies, HarperCollins, 1969)
The Town as an agent of civilisation (Le Goff, in Fontana Economic History of Europe, 1972)
Before the Industrial Revolution (Cipolla, Norton, 1994)
Medieval Regions and their Cities (Russell, David & Charles, 1972)
Peasants, Merchants and Markets (Masschaele, St Martins, 1997)
Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (Kowaleski, Cambridge, 1995)
The Archaeology of Medieval London (Thomas, Sutton, 2002)
Compilation of source material: Medieval Urban Demography.pdf
Individual Towns / Cities: Paris 1292.pdf
Online Catasto of 1427 - Florentine Census (Herlihy et at (eds), Brown University, 2002)
Analysis of recorded occupations from the Catasto: Florence 1427-29.pdf
Ancient / Classical Economics:
On the Political Economy of the Roman Empire (Hopkins, 1998)
Economies beyond Agriculture in the Classical World (Mattingly & Salmon (eds.), Routledge, 2001)
- see review & bibliography: Engen, Economic History Services.
Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy (Duncan-Jones, Cambridge, 2002)
Money and Government in the Roman Empire (Duncan-Jones, Cambridge, 1994) - see review.
Introduction to Roman Economic issues - Prof Greg Woolf's course handouts.
Medieval / Ancient Prices :
Medieval Price List (Hodges, various sources)
Money, Income, and Expenses (HYW, various sources)
The Maze of Medieval Mint Metrology in Flanders, France and England: Determining the Weight of the Marc de Troyes and the Tower Pound from the Economics of Counterfeiting, 1388-1469. (Munro, 1988)
The Commodity Purchasing Power of Wages in 15th Century London - in "Medieval Spices: Uses, Costs & Recipes" (Monro, 1988)
The Debasement Puzzle: An Essay on Medieval Monetary History (Rolnick et al, Journal of Economic History, 1996)
What things cost in Ancient Rome - Prices Extracted from the Price Edict of Diocletian (Dalka, 2002)
Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents Translated with Introductions and Notes (Lopez & Raymond, Collumbia University Press, 1955) - has been reprinted 2001.
Standards of living in the later Middle Ages (Dyer, Cambridge, 1989)
Everyday life in Medieval England (Dyer, Hambledon, 2000)
General Medieval Economics:
Power and Profit - The Merchant in Medieval Europe (Spufford, Thames & Hudson, 2002)
(An excellent review of this book is available at Guardian Unlimited Books)
Origins of the European Economy: Communication and Commerce AD 300-900 (McCormick, Cambridge 2002)
- see review Griffiths, Economic History Services.
Dark Age Economics - The origins of towns and trade AD600-1000 (Hodges, Duckworth, 1989)
The Carolingian Economy (Verhulst, Cambridge, 2002)
History of Business in Medieval Europe 1200-1550 (Hunt &Murray, Cambridge, 1999)
Fontana Economic History of Europe - the Middle Ages (Cipolla (ed), Fontana, 1972)
Before the Industrial Revolution (Cipolla, Norton, 1994)
Medieval English Economics:
Compilation of source material on monetisation: Medieval Monetisation.pdf
The Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer (c1180).
The English Revenue of Richard I - from English Historical Review v.116 (Barratt, 2001)
Compilation of source material: English Revenue 1188-1215.pdf
Royal Finance in Thirteenth Century England (Ormrod, in Thirteenth Century England, Volume V, Boydell, 1995)
Compilation of source material: English Royal Finance.pdf
The marketing of grain in England, 1250-1350. (Britnell)
Markets & Fairs in Britain and Ireland before 1216 (Britnell)
The peasant land market in southern England 1260-1350 (Britnell et al, )
Price-Setting in English Borough Markets, 1349-1500 (Britnell, 1996)
The Changing Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Warfare, Transaction Costs, and the 'New Institutional Economics' (Munro, 2001)
A Commercialising Economy - England 1086 to c.1300 (Britnell & Campbell eds, Manchester, 1995)
The Commercialisation of English Society 1000-1500 (Britnell, Manchester, 1996)
Peasants, Merchants and Markets - Inland Trade in Medieval England 1150-1350 (Masschaele, St Martins, 1997)
Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter (Kowaleski, Cambridge, 1995)
A Medieval Capital and its Grain Supply: Agrarian Production and Distribution in the London Region c.1300 (Campbell, Galloway, Keene & Murphy, Historical Geography Research Series - No. 30, 1993)
The Medieval Economy and Society (Postan, 1972)
Making a Living in the Middle Ages - The People of Britain 850 - 1520 (Dyer, Penguin, 2003)
Modelling the Middle Ages - The history and theory of England's economic development (Hatcher & Bailey, Oxford, 2001)
Urban Trade in Medieval England: The Evidence of Foreign Gild Membership Lists (Masschaele, in Thirteenth Century England, Volume V, Boydell, 1995)
Sedentary Long-distance Trade and the English Merchant Class in Thirteenth-Century England (Britnell, iin Thirteenth Century England, Volume V, Boydell, 1995)
English 'Backwardness' and Financial Innovations in Commerce with the Low Countries, 14th to 16th centuries (Munro, 1998).
The Rise and Fall of Markets in Southeast England (Mate, 1996)
Military logistics:
'Mount the War-Horses, Take your Lance in Grip...' - Logistic preparations for the Gascon Campaign of 1294 (Vaughn, The Thirteenth Century, vol 8, 2001).
Caballus et Caballarius in Medieval Warfare (Bachrach, Study of Chivalry, 1988)
Medieval Industry: (See also a full list of Munro's online articles)
Wool and Wool-based Textiles c800-1500 (Munro, 2000)
Western European Wollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets c1000-1500 (Munro, 2000)
The Textile Industry in Essex in the late 12th and 13th Centuries (Gervers, 1989)
The Mobilisation of Labour in the Milling Industry of Thirteenth- and Early fourteenth-century England (Langdon, 1996)
The Medieval Machine (Gimpel, 1976)
The Medieval Builder and his methods (Andrews, Dover, 1999)
Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel - Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages (Gies, HaperCollins, 1994)
Medieval Industry (Thrupp, in Fontana Economic History of Europe, 1972)
The Expansion of Technology (White, in Fontana Economic History of Europe, 1972)
Islamic Economics:
The Medieval World of Islam: An Economic and Environmental Analysis (Blanchard, 2001)
Islam and the Medieval Progentitors of Austrian Economics (Ahmad, 1995)
Online Articles on Medieva l Economics
'The Middle Ages: A Concept too Many" (Blanchard, 1996) [PDF file]
- The Middle Ages. An Economic Historian's Perspective
- Mawara'an-nahr: Central Asia triumphant
- Dark Age Europe: A Regressive Economy
- Europe's "Age of Sliver"
'The Medieval Economy in its Prime' (Blanchard, 1996) [PDF file]
- Central- and south-eastern Europe to the thirteenth century
- Central Europe - Precious metal production, market-urban systems and agricultural change.
- South-eastern Europe - Silver production, market-urban systems and agricultural change.
- International Monetary and Commercial Systems
- Plague and Changes in the "Real" Economy
- Medieval economic growth in historical perspective: a case-study of Britain in the Middle Ages and after.
'The Long Sixteenth Century - c1450-1650' (Blanchard, 1998) [PDF File]
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