Professor John Munro passed away on December 23, 2013. This site is maintained and kept online as an archive. For more infomation please visit the Centre for Medieval Studies
HREF="http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/main.css">Professor John Munro
Department of Economics
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/
The following table provides a list of the lecture notes to be published online, on my Home Page, as indicated
above, in both: Portable Document Format [pdf], which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader software, available
free of charge; and in Micro-Soft Word. When the lecture has been posted, the word 'pdf', highlighted and underlined, will appear
below the delivery date, in column 2; for the MS Word version, the words 'MS-Word' will also be highlighted and underlined.
If the lecture notes are subsequently revised and reposted, the letter (R), in parentheses, will appear after the date or after the already highlighted MS-Word. You will, however, have to use the html version of this document, i.e., with the table below, to access
those lectures, by so clicking on the highlighted titles. Such access is, of course, not available in pdf
documents.
Note: All of the lectures that were posted on this site last year have been removed (in both pdf and Word);
and if you click on the indicator for the lecture you will receive this message: 'NOT FOUND: the requested URL Munro5/....
was not found on this server'. [The lectures are still on the server, but I have altered the html coding to block access
to them]. As indicated above, acess to each lecture will be restored on this site after the revised lecture has
been given.
Most of the lectures sets pertain to just one weekly lecture, but a few of these numbered sets will cover two lecture dates. The dates below are those on which the actual lecture(s) was/were delivered. The relevant lecture notes, numbered as indicated in this table, will usually be available within three days of the delivery of the lecture, i.e., by the end of that week. At the same time, I shall post, as separate MS-Word files, the maps, graphs, illustrations, etc., as need be, for each lecture.
The topics in column 3 are taken from the detailed outline of the lectures:
http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/201LECT.pdf
No. | DATE (Wednesdays) | TITLE of LECTURE (Lecture Topics Covered)
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1 | 10 & 17 September 2003 | ECONOMICS 201Y: INTRODUCTION:
Why study economic history? I. BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE MEDIEVAL ECONOMY: A. A Survey of International and Regional Commerce during the Apogee of the Medieval 'Commercial Revolution' Era, 1250 - 1320 B. West European Feudalism: As a Military, Political, and Economic Institution |
2 | 17 & 24 September 2003 | I. BARRIERS TO GROWTH IN THE MEDIEVAL
ECONOMY
C. West European Manorialism and Peasant Serfdom: D. Agricultural Field Systems North and South: 1. Mediterranean 'Dry Farming': the Two-Field System 2. The Northern Three-Field and 'Open' or 'Common' Field SystemsE. Feudalism, Manorialism, Open Fields, and Serfdom as Barriers to Economic Development |
3 | 1 & 8 October 2003 | II. MACRO- AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE
EUROPEAN ECONOMY, 1300 - 1520
A. Population: Demographic Changes Before and After the Black Death, 1290-1500 |
4 | 15 October 2003 | II. MACRO- AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE
EUROPEAN ECONOMY, 1300 - 1520
B. Money and Monetary Changes in Western Europe , c.1290 - 1520 |
5 | 22 October 2003 | II. MACRO- AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE
EUROPEAN ECONOMY, 1300 - 1520
C. The Course of Prices and General Economic Trends, 1290 - 1520 D. Slump and Recovery in the 14th & 15th Centuries: the Late-Medieval 'Great Depression' Debate |
6 | 29 October 2003 | III. LATE-MEDIEVAL AGRICULTURE: Changes in
Later Medieval Agrarian European Society, from c.
1300 - c. 1520
A. Late-Medieval Peasant Serfdom: Its Decline in the West and Rise in the East B. Mediterranean Agriculture: the Agrarian Responses to the Late-Medieval Crises in Italy, Southern France and Spain C. Northern Agriculture: Agrarian Changes in the Late-Medieval Low Countries and Northern France (Artois and Picardy) |
7 | 5 November 2003 | III. LATE-MEDIEVAL AGRICULTURE: Changes in
Later Medieval Agrarian Society, c. 1300 - c. 1520
D. England: Changes in Arable and Livestock Farming, 1300 - 1460; Wool Production and the Early Enclosures as Responses to Agrarian Crises and the Growth of the Cloth Trade. |
8 | 12 November 2003 | IV. MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRIES: LATE-MEDIEVAL EUROPE
A. The Wool Textile Industries: Woollens and Worsteds |
9 | 12 November 2003 | V. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE: Changing Patterns of
International Trade in Late Medieval Europe, 1280 - 1520
A. The Role of Commerce and International Trade in European Economic Development B. Warfare, Transaction Costs, and the International 'Depression', 1280 - c. 1400: Decline of the Champagne Fairs C. Italy and the Mediterranean World: in Late-Medieval International Commerce |
10 | 19 November 2003 | IV. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE: Changing Patterns of
International Trade in Late Medieval Europe, 1280 - 1520
D. Northern Commerce: The Baltic, the German Hanseatic League, and the Rise of the Dutch, c.1290 to 1400 |
11 | 26 November 2003 | V. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE: Changing Patterns of
International Trade in Late Medieval Europe, ca. 1280 - ca.
1520
E. Northern Commerce: England, the Baltic, the German Hanse, and the Rise of the Antwerp Market, 1340 - 1520 |
12 | 26 November 2003 | V. INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE: Changing Patterns of
International Trade in Late Medieval Europe, ca. 1280 - ca.
1520
F. Portugal and the Beginnings of Overseas Explorations and Colonization: Africa, Asia, and the Americas (1440 - 1520) |
13 | 3 December 2003 | VI. BANKING, CREDIT, AND FINANCE IN LATE
MEDIEVAL EUROPE, 1280 - 1520
A. The Medieval Church, Loans, and the Usury Question B. Credit in the Late-Medieval Economy: the Loan Contracts C. Investment Contracts in the Medieval Economy: Non-Loan Contracts D. The Italian Contributions to Late-Medieval Banking Institutions: Deposit Banking and Bills of Exchange
|
II. | SECOND TERM: January to April 2004
|
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14 | 7 January 2004 | VII. MACRO- AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN
THE EUROPEAN ECONOMY, 1520 - 1750
A. Population: Demographic Movements, c. 1500 - c.1750 |
15 | 14 January 2004 | VII. MACRO- AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE
EUROPEAN ECONOMY, 1520 - 1750
B. Money and Monetary Movements in Early-Modern Europe: c. 1500 - c. 1750 |
16 | 21 January 2004 | VII. MACRO- AND STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE
EUROPEAN ECONOMY, 1520 - 1750
C. Price Movements in Early-Modern Europe: during the eras of the 'Price Revolution' (1520-1640) and 'General Crisis' (1640 - 1740) |
17 | 28 January 2004 | VIII. AGRARIAN CHANGES IN EARLY-MODERN
EUROPE:
A. The Low Countries: Agricultural Precocity and Growth in Flanders and Holland B. England: The Enclosure Movement in the Tudor - Stuart era, c. 1520 - 1640 |
18 | 4 February 2004 | VIII. AGRARIAN CHANGES IN EARLY-MODERN
EUROPE:
C. English Agriculture: Changes in Agrarian Technology and Land-holding, c.1520 - c.1740 |
19 | 11 February 2004 | VIII. AGRARIAN CHANGES IN EARLY-MODERN
EUROPE:
D. France: Agriculture in Early-Modern France: 15th to 18th Centuries |
18 February 2004 | Reading Week:
no lectures this week | |
20 | 11 & 25 February 2004 | IX. COMMERCE: CHANGING PATTERNS OF
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN
EARLY-MODERN EUROPE, c. 1520 - 1750
A. The Dutch Commercial Empire: Apogee, and Hegemony, and Decline, 1520 - 1760 B. Dutch Shipbuilding and Commercial Supremacy: the Industrial Link |
21 | 25 February & 3 March 2004 | IX. COMMERCE: CHANGING PATTERNS OF
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN EARLY-MODERN EUROPE, c. 1520 - 1750
C. Foreign Trade: the English Overseas Commercial Empires, c. 1520 - c. 1750 |
22 | 10 March 2004 | IX. COMMERCE: CHANGING PATTERNS OF
REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN EARLY-MODERN EUROPE, c. 1520 - 1750
D. Mercantilism, Money, and the State in Foreign Trade, 16th to 18th Centuries |
23 | 10 March 2004 | X. BANKING, FINANCE, AND BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION, 1520 - 1750
A. Financial Innovations in England and the Low Countries: Private and Public Finance |
24 | 17 March 2004 | X. BANKING, FINANCE, AND BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION, 1520 - 1750
B. Dutch Banking and Finance in the 17th and 18th Centuries. |
25 | 17 March 2004 | X. BANKING, FINANCE, AND BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION, 1520 - 1750
A. England: Business Organization and Joint Stock Companies, 1550 - 1720 |
26 | 24 March 2004 | X. BANKING, FINANCE, AND BUSINESS
ORGANIZATION, 1520 - 1750
B. England: Money, Banking, and Finance, 1500 - 1797 |
27 | 31 March 2004 | XI. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES: INDUSTRIAL
CHANGE IN EARLY-MODERN EUROPE, 1520 - 1750
A. Early-Modern England: Industrial Changes in Textiles: the Old and New Draperies, with the Origins of the Cotton (Fustian) Industry: 1520 - 1750 |
28 | 7 April 2004 | XI. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES: INDUSTRIAL
CHANGE IN EARLY-MODERN EUROPE, 1520 -1750
B. Industrial Change in Early-Modern England: Coal and the New Coal-Burning Industries (the Nef Thesis) D. British and Continental European Industries on the Eve of the Modern 'Industrial Revolution' |