The Cambridge economic history of Europe : Volume II. Trade and industry in the Middle Ages /
Edited by M.M. Postan ; Edited by E.E. Rich.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1952.
- xvi, 604 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- The Cambridge economic history of Europe .
- The Cambridge economic history of Europe .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-569) and index.
Chapter I: Trade and industry in barbarian Europe till Roman times / Chapter II: Trade and industry under the later Roman Empire in the West / Chapter III: Byzantine trade and industry / Chapter IV: The trade of medieval Europe: The North / Chapter V: The trade of medieval Europe: The South / Chapter VI: The woollen industry / Chapter VII: Mining and metallurgy in medieval civilisation / Chapter VIII: Building in stone in medieval western Europe / V. Gordon Childe -- Frank William Walbank -- Steven Runciman -- Michael Postan -- Rovert S. Lopez -- Eleanora Carus-Wilson -- John U. Nef -- Gwilym Peredur Jones.
"Chapters I and II are concerned with the antecedents of medieval trade, and the first of these chapters covers a period for which no separate provision was made in the first volume... The chapter on Byzantium, like the projected but missing chapters on the trade and industry of Eastern Europe and Western Asia, is, so to speak, external to the main theme of the volume, which is, like the series as a whole, primarily concerned with Western Europe. The purpose of the 'external' chapters is to illuminate the economic conditions of the areas in constant trading relation with the West. The main subject of the volume - the trade and industry of Western Europe in the Middle Ages proper - is shared by two separate chapters." -- From the preface.