The Cambridge economic history of Europe : Volume I. The agrarian life of the Middle Ages /
Edited by M.M. Postan.
- 2nd ed.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1966.
- xvi, 871 pages : contains maps, illustrations ; 24 cm
- The Cambridge economic history of Europe ; .
- The Cambridge economic history of Europe .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- List of illustrations -- Chapter I: The settlement and colonization of Europe -- Chapter II: Agriculture and rural life in the later Roman Empire -- Chapter III: The evolution of agricultural technique -- Chapter IV: Agrarian institutions of the Germanic Kingdoms from the fifth to the ninth century -- Chapter V: Agrarian conditions in the Byzantine Empire in the Middle Ages -- Chapter VI: The rise of dependent cultivation and seignorial institutions -- Chapter VII: Medieval agrarian society in its prime - 1. France, the low countries, and western Germany - 2. Italy - 3. Spain - 4. The lands east of the Elbe and German colonization eastwards - 5. Poland, Lithuania, and Hungary - 6. Russia - 7. England - 8. Scandinavia -- Chapter VIII: Crisis: From the Middle Ages to modern times.
"A quarter of a century has passed since the first volume of the Cambridge Economic History was published. In the meantime much more knowledge has accumulated and new points of view have emerged. The Editor and the publishers have therefore agreed that what was now required was not merely a reprint, nor even a corrected version, of the 1941 volume, but a wholly new edition brought up to date by modernizing some chapters and substituting wholly new chapters for those considered impossible to modernize." -- From the preface.