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Title: The Early Growth of European Economy: Warriors and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Centuries (World Economic History Series) by Georges Duby ISBN: 0-8014-9169-X Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1978 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ground-breaking, but outdated
Comment: Duby's work was ground-breaking in the 1960s, but has now become outdated. That is not to say that his arguments and analyses have proven wrong or been supersceded. It is outdated simply because it has been incorporated into much more detailed and comprehensive accounts written in the last thirty years (particularly by Norman Pounds).
That does not mean that this book is not worth reading. Duby's piece still provides a unique perspective. Although the work as a whole has been incorporated into much bigger books, no one has focused on the same characteristics that he has. Duby writes wonderfully on the gift and plunder economy, the importance of the medieval world-view to economic growth, and the change in technology. Duby's work is most valuable, however, for the image it creates. Duby follows in the French tradition of writing "impressionist histories." In this way Duby gives an excellent idea of what it was like to live in the early medieval period. In many ways The Early Growth of the European Economy is the perfect companion to Marc Bloch's Feudal Society.
This book is still worth reading because of the focus it has and the impression it gives. At under three hundred pages, it is a quick read, and provides an excellent introduction to the topic.
Rating: 5
Summary: Medieval Gift Economy
Comment: Includes an excellent section on the medieval gift economy, something which many authors have relegated to anthropology of the developing world. He is one of the few to show the pattern of looting and giving--to knights, to God, to King--that solidified social relations and acted as the road to power in the old social order.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great work
Comment: This is without doubt one of the best history books written in the twentieth century. A work of great depth and breadth, it shows a master historian at his best. The analysis is rich and complex; just about every page is rich with insight and often turns upside down some old conventional wisdom (cf., for but one example, his assessement of the positive role the Vikings had on the redistribution of wealth and on economic quickening in general in Europe). This is a veritable tour de force, and one that should be required reading for anyone seriously interested in medieval history. Of course, some material is dated, and on some topics the author changed his mind later on in his career, but that does not detract from the force and brilliance of this classic.
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Title: Feudal Society: Social Classes and Political Organization by Marc Bloch, L.A. Manyon ISBN: 0226059790 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1982 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Making of the Middle Ages by R. W. Southern ISBN: 0300002300 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1953 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Time, Work and Culture in the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff ISBN: 0226470814 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1982 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: PRIZE : THE EPIC QUEST FOR OIL, MONEY & POWER by Daniel Yergin ISBN: 0671799320 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire: Volume 1, 1300-1600 (Economic & Social History of the Ottoman Empire) by Halil Inalcik ISBN: 0521574560 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $32.00 |
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