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An Island for Itself: Economic Development and Social Change in Late Medieval Sicily (Past and Present Publications) - Softcover

Epstein, Stephan R.

 
9780521525077: An Island for Itself: Economic Development and Social Change in Late Medieval Sicily (Past and Present Publications)

Synopsis

Late medeival Sicily is shown to have been neither underdeveloped nor dependent on foreign trade.

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An Island for Itself Late medeival Sicily is shown to have been neither underdeveloped nor dependent on foreign trade.

Book Description

This study of late medieval Sicily develops a critique of theories of dependence through trade, and a new interpretation of the late medieval economy. Following the Black Death, many institutional and social constraints on commercialization were relaxed throughout western Europe as a result of social conflict and demographic change.

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