History 5341 Medieval Italy
John Howe

List 4: Rural & Commercial Italy

Reference:

Luscombe, Davis, and Jonathan Riley Smith (eds.) The New Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. 4  c.1024- c. 1198, Part 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 1-147.

Postan, M. M., and Edward Miller (eds.) The Cambridge Economic History of Europe: Vol.  2: Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages. 2^nd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Early Middle Ages 

Review Together: 1)G. P.  Brogiolo. “Ideas of the Town in Italy during the Transition from Antiquity to the Middle Ages.” In The Idea and Ideal of the Town between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Edited by G. P. Brogiolo and Bryan Ward-Perkins. The Transformation of the Roman World volume 4. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1999. Pp. 99-126; and 2) Bryan Ward-Perkins “The Towns of Northern Italy. Rebirth or Renewal?” In The Rebirth of Towns in the West ad 700-1050. Edited by Richard Hodges and Brian Hobley, London: Council for British Archaeology, 1988. Pp. 16- 27.

Christie, Neil. From Constantine to Charlemagne: An Archeology of Medieval Italy, 300-800, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 1988.

Higginbotham, James Arnold. Piscinae: Artificial Fishponds in Roman Italy. Studies in the History of Greece and Rome. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Luzatto, Gino. An Ecoonomic History of Italy: From the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century. Translated Philip Jones. London: Routledge, 1961.

McCormick. Michael. Origins of the European Economy: Communications and Commerce AD 300-900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Sereni, Emilio. History of the Italian Agricultural Landscape. Translated with an introduction by R. Burr Litchfield. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.

Squatriti, Paolo. Water and Society in Early Medieval Italy, A.D. 400-1000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Vita-Finzi, Claudio. The Mediterranean Valleys: Geological Changes in Historical Times. London, Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Wickham, Chris. Land and Power: Studies in Italian and European Social History, 400-1200. London: British School at Rome, 1994.

Wickham, Chris. Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Wickham, Chris. Medieval Rome: Stability and Crisis of a City, 900-1150. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Wickham, Chris. The Mountains and the City: The Tuscan Appennines in the Early Middle Ages. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1988.

 
High & Later Middle Ages

Appuhn, Karl. A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

Brentano, Robert. A New World in a Small Place: Church and Religion in the Diocese of Rieti. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Review Together: 1) George Dameron, "Feeding the Medieval Italian City-State: Grain, War and Political Legitimacy in Tuscany, c. 1150-c. 1350." Speculum 92 (2017): 976-1019;  2) William Caffero, “Warfare and the Economy of Renaissance Italy, 1350-1450.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39 (2008): 167-209.

Epstein, Steven. Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets, 1300-1750. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Epstein, Stephan R.  An Island for Itself:  Economic Development and Social Change in Late Medieval Sicily. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Epstein, Steven. Wills and Wealth in Medieval Genoa, 1150-1250. Harvard Historical Studies 103. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984.

Review Together: 1) Wallace K. Ferguson, ”Recent Trends in the Economic Historiography of the Renaissance.” Studies in the Renaissance 7 (1960): 7-26 ;  2)  Judith Brown, “Prosperity or Hard Times in Renaissance Italy.” Renaissance Quarterly 42 (1989): 760-80.

Jacks, Philip, and William Caferro. The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family. University Park: Penn State University Press. 2001.

Jardine, Lisa. Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance. New York: W. W. Norton, 1996.

Little. Lester K. The Wine Porters of Northern Italy and Their Saint, 1200-1800. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015.

Lopez, Robert F. The Commercial Revolution of the Middle Ages, 950-1350. Cambridge: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971.

Mazzaoiu, Maureen. The Cotton Industry in the Later Middle Ages, 1100-1600. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Mueller, Reinhold C. The Venetian Money Market: Banks, Panics, and the Public Debt, 1200-1500. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.

Nobes, Christopher (ed.). The Development of Double-Entry: Selected Essays. New York: Garland, 1984.

Noble, Thomas F. X., and John Van Engen (eds.). European Transformations: The Long Twelfth Century. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. Esp. chapters 5, 6. 9, and 13.

 Origo, Iris. The Merchant of Prato: Francesco Di Marco Datini, 1335-1410. 1957, rpt. New York: Penguin, 2002.

 Padgett, John F., and Paul. D. MacLean. “Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership in Renaissance Florence.” American Journal of Sociology 111 (2006): 1453-568. DOI:10.1086/498470

 Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell, The Corrupting Sea: A Study of Mediterranean History. Oxford:  Blackwell, 2000.

 Perry, David M. Sacred Plunder: Venice and the Aftermath of the Fourth Crusade. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. 

Skinner, Patricia. Medieval Amalfi and Its Diaspora, 800-1250. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

 Wickham, Chris.  Community and Clientele in Twelfth-Century Tuscany:  The Origins of the Rural Commune in the Plain of Lucca.  New York:  Clarendon Press of Oxford, 1998.