Prof. John H. Munro
Department of Economics
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
http://www.economics.ca/munro5/

BIBLIOGRAPHIES FOR ECO 2210Y SEMINAR TOPICS: SHORT 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. Though some topics are mandatory, most are chosen by the seminar students according to their research interests. Bibliographies for topics not chosen in recent years are thus too outdated to be posted here.

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 usually not effectively reproduced in html format on this web site; and for this reason the pdf format is much preferable,since it replicates all Word Perfect tables without any problems.

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, editor in chief, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, 5 vols. (New York, 2003).