Crisis in the Later Middle Ages: Beyond the Postan-Duby Paradigm

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These papers are taken from the first of a series of five international conferences devoted to the European conjuncture in 1300. They examine the enduring influence of Michael Postan’s Malthusian model of economic crisis, and in particular the impact upon non-English speaking historians of Postan’s ideas as interpreted by Georges Duby. Through both historiographical essays and original research, the authors reinterpret the later medieval crisis on the continent and in Britain. The vision they express is of a medieval society in which economic, political, and social threads wove together town and country in a complex web extending to the furthest reaches of the ‘margin’, in the highlands of the Mediterranean and on the heaths of England. In order to understand the later medieval crisis, our attention must shift to how individuals negotiated and manoeuvred among institutions of exchange, power, and culture in their bewildering complexity rather than focus upon the modelling of reified factors. Front Matter ("Title Page", "Copyright Page", "Contents", "Illustrations"), p. i Free Access Introduction, p. 1 John Drendel https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103781 Commercialization, Stagnation, and Crisis, 1250–1350, p. 15 Richard Britnell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103782 Medieval Small Towns and the Late Medieval Crisis, p. 35 Christopher Dyer https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103783 The Long Thirteenth Century: An Era of Schumpeterian Growth?, p. 53 John Langdon https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103784 M. M. Postan and the Peasant Economy, p. 73 Phillipp Schofield https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103785 Historians and Peasant Agency: Studies of Late Medieval English Peasants, p. 95 Anne DeWindt https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103786 ‘Money Matters’: A Critique of the Postan Thesis on Medieval Population, Prices, and Wages, p. 127 John Munro https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103787 The Family or the Farm: A Sophie’s Choice? The Late Medieval Crisis in Flanders, p. 195 Erik Thoen, Tim Soens https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103788 Le destin heuristique d’une histoire de la panique. La Crise en Provence au Moyen Âge finissant : Jalons historiographiques pour le xive siècle, p. 225 Thierry Pécout https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103789 De nouveaux chemins de développement dans le Languedoc d’avant la peste, p. 251 Monique Bourin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103790 Quand le bâtiment va … Une facette des rapports ville-campagne : Le marché des matériaux, p. 273 Philippe Bernardi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103791 Réflexions sur la condition des travailleurs au cours du xive siècle à Marseille, p. 297 Francine Michaud https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103792 Les capbreus royaux roussillonnais et la crise malthusienne, p. 323 Laure Verdon https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103793 Cistercian Agriculture in Female Houses of Northern France, 1200–1300, p. 339 Constance H. Berman https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TMC.5.103794 Back Matter ("Titles in Series"), p. 365