A Critical Appraisal Of The Influence Exerted By Malthusian Explanations Of Crisis In The Early Fourteenth Century In The Work Of Michael Postan And Georges Duby. 0these 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. Introduction / John Drendel -- Commercialization, Stagnation, And Crisis, 1250-1350 / Richard Britnell -- Medieval Small Towns And The Late Medieval Crisis / Christopher Dyer -- The Long Thirteenth Century: An Era Of Schumpeterian Growth? / John Langdon -- M. M. Postan And The Peasant Economy / Phillipp Schofield -- Historians And Peasant Agency: Studies Of Late Medieval English Peasants / Anne Dewindt -- 'money Matters': A Critique Of The Postan Thesis On Medieval Population, Prices, And Wages / John Munro -- The Family Or The Farm: A Sophie's Choice? The Late Medieval Crisis In Flanders / Erik Thoen And Tim Soens -- Le Destin Heuristique D'une Histoire De La Panique. La Crise En Provence Au Moyen Âge Finissant: Jalons Historiographiques Pour Le Xive Siècle / Thierry Pécout -- De Nouveaux Chemins De Développement Dans Le Languedoc D'avant La Peste / Monique Bourin -- Quand Le Bâtiment Va ... Une Facette Des Rapports Ville-campagne: Le Marché Des Matériaux / Philippe Bernardi -- Réflexions Sur La Condition Des Travailleurs Au Cours Du Xive Siècle à Marseille / Francine Michaud -- Les Capbreus Royaux Roussillonnais Et La Crise Malthusienne / Laure Verdon -- Cistercian Agriculture In Female Houses Of Northern France, 1200-1300 / Constance H. Berman. Edited By John Drendel. Includes Bibliographical References. Cub. trasera: "A critical appraisal of the influence exerted by Malthusian explanations of crisis in the early fourteenth century in the work of Michael Postan and Georges Duby. "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"
