UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
http://www.economics.ca/munro5/
BIBLIOGRAPHIES FOR ECO 2210Y SEMINAR TOPICS: LONG FORMAT
Graduate Seminar on:
TOPICS ON THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF LATER MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE, c.1200 - c.1600
Note: only the bibliographies for seminar topics offered in recent years
are posted on this web-site.
note: Because I reached the age of 65 in March 2003, I was subjected to mandatory retirement,
on 30 June 2003; and I will no longer be offering this course. I am, however, continuing to teach my
two undergraduate courses in economic history, for perhaps three years: ECO 201Y and ECO 303Y.
This department has no desire to finance a graduate course that attracted few Economics students
(and, in the past, chiefly those from the Centre for Medieval Studies and the History Department).
Therefore, I will probably not continue updating these bibliographies.
You are thus advised to seek out the bibliographies for similar topics in my undergraduate course on late
medieval and early modern European economic history:
ECO 201Y1 , which bibliographies are
also listed above, on this web page.
Bibliographies for the following topics are available in both short and long formats. The short format provides a one or two page listing of the more important readings,
chiefly recent journal articles, the most important of which are indicated by asterisks; and it also contains a few major questions to guide you in your readings, seminar reports and class discussion, and/or in writing your
research essays. The long format, which should be the preferred format for your research papers, provides a fairly complete list of all publications related to the topic: in monographs, journal articles, collections of essays, etc; and these listings are arranged by sub-topics,
in the chronological order of their publication. The long format, which is the only version posted on this web-site, also contains a far more extensive list of questions; and most of them also contain published collections of documents (or other primary sources) and statistical tables.
Statistical compilations will be considered a 'primary source' for the purpose of writing research essays. The short-format for each topic given this year will be provided (for free) as a print-out to all students registered in the course.
A further note on statistical tables in the following bibliographies: those that were constructed in Excel or Quattro Pro or
recent versions of WordPerfect (i.e. versions 7, 8, or 9) are effectively reproduced in html format on this web site. Others (i.e. older
tables) are not, however; and I shall try to reconstruct these tables in a modern computer format some time in the near future.
For most of these topics, students should also consult these more general dictionary/encyclopedia sources:
- Joseph Strayer, et al, eds., Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 13 vols. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons: MacMillan, 1982-89).
- F.A.C. Mantello and A.G. Rigg, eds., Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America, 1996).
- William Kibler and Grover Zinn, eds., Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, Garland Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, vol. 2 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1995).
- Paul Szarmach, Teresa Tavormina, and Joel Rosenthal, eds., Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, Garland Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, vol. 3 (New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998).
- Joel Mokyr, general editor, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 5 vols. (New York, 2003).
THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES for ECO 2210Y: Long Format only
- Topics nos. 1 - 3 : Medieval Demography and the Late-Medieval Demographic Crises,
ca. 1280-1500: European Population Changes Before and After the Black Death . Also available in
pdf format
(1) Medieval European Demography and the Family: The Origins and
Evolution of the European Marriage Pattern.
(2) Medieval European Demography and the Economy: Did Late-Medieval Population Growth Produce a Malthusian Crisis?
(3) Medieval European Demography and Disease: The Great Famine, the
Black Death, Later Plagues, and Economic Conjoncture in Late-Medieval European Society.
- Topics Nos. 4 - 5: Manorial Institutions, Peasant Society, and Agrarian Change in Later
Medieval Western Europe, 1300-1520. Also available in pdf format
- Topics Nos. 6 -7: The Problem of Serfdom in European Economic Development, 14th to 17th
Centuries: West and East. Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 8: Money, Moneys-of-Account, and Coinage in Medieval and Early-Modern
Europe. Also in pdf format.
- Topic No. 9: Money and Economic Conjuncture in Late-Medieval Europe: Monetary
Forces and Economic Crises during the 14th and 15th Centuries.
Also available in pdf format.
- Topics Nos. 10 -11: The Church, the Usury Question, and Banking Institutions in Late-Medieval
Europe. Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 12: The Dynamics of Change in Late-Medieval Industry: Woollen Textile
Manufacturing and the Cloth Trade in Western Europe, 1280 - 1500 .
Also in pdf format
- Topic No. 13: Guilds, Towns, and Women in the Late-Medieval European Economy . Also in
pdf format
- Topic No. 14: War, Taxation, and 'Economic Crises' in Later-Medieval Europe, 1290 -
1453. Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 16: 'The Great Depression' of the Late Middle Ages: Myth or Reality?
Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 19: Population and Demographic Changes in the European Economy, 1450 -
1640: from the end of the late-medieval 'Depression' to the Eve of the 'General Crisis'.
Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 21: Money, Credit, and Banking in Italy, the Netherlands and England, 16th to
18th Centuries
- Topic No. 22: The European 'Price Revolution' Era, c.1540 - c.1640: The Problems of
Inflation and Economic Growth in Early Modern Europe.
Also available in pdf format.
- Topics Nos. 23 - 25: Agrarian Change and Modernization in the Netherlands and England,
1400-1750: The 'New Husbandry' and Tudor-Stuart Enclosures. Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 26: The 'Rise of the Gentry' Debate: Agriculture and Social Structure
in Tudor-Stuart England. Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 27: Late-Medieval and Early Modern French Agriculture: Social and Agrarian Changes, 14th to 18th Centuries: The 'Feudal Crises,' Rural
'Embourgeoisement,' The Seigniorial Reaction, and the Beginnings of an Agricultural Revolution . Also in
pdf format
- Topic no. 29: European Overseas Explorations and Colonizations: the Portuguese and
Spanish Empires, c. 1420 - 1600. Also available in pdf format.
- Topic no. 30: The Changing Patterns of Mediterranean Commerce, 1280 - 1600: Italy,
Catalonia/Aragon, France, the Ottoman Empire, and the Levant.
Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 31: Northern Commerce, in the Baltic and North Seas: The Hanseatic League and
the Rise of the Dutch Commercial Empire, 1350 - 1600 .
Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 32: English Overseas Trade: The Establishment of a Commercial Empire, 1450-1750.
Also available in pdf format.
- Topic no. 33: Draperies Old and New: the Transformations of the Textile Industries in the
Low Countries, England, and France, 1450 - 1600.
Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 34: The Nef Thesis: The Early Industrial Revolution' and Industrial Change in
Tudor-Stuart England, 1540-1640.
Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 35: The Protestant Reformations and the 'Rise of Capitalism': The
Weber-Tawney Thesis and its Critics.
Also available in pdf format.
- Topic No. 36: The 'General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century', c.1620 - c.1740: The
Hobsbawm Thesis and its Critics.
Also available in pdf format.