Jordan The Great Famine

Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2213-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 328 Seiten

William Chester Jordan is Professor of History and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. Among his books are Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership (Princeton), Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Develpoing Societies, and The French Monarchy and the Jews from Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians. He is the editor-in-chief of The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jordan, William Chester

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Prologue 3

Pt. I A Calamity "Unheard-of Among Living Men"

1 The Bringers of Famine in 1315: Rain, War, God 7

2 The Harvest Failures and Animal Murrains 24

Pt. II The Economics and Demography of the Famine in Rural Society

3 Prices and Wages 43

4 The Cost-of-Living Crisis: Lords 61

5 The Cost-of-Living Crisis: Rustics 87

6 The Struggle for Survival 108

Pt. III Towns and Principalities

7 Urban Demography and Economy 127

8 Coping in Towns 151

9 The Policies of Princes 167

Epilogue 182

Notes 189

Bibliography 261

Index 305

Über Autor(innen)

William Chester Jordan is Professor of History and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University. Among his books are Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership (Princeton), Women and Credit in Pre-Industrial and Develpoing Societies, and The French Monarchy and the Jews from Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians. He is the editor-in-chief of The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students.