Benjamin Arnold: Power and Property in Medieval Germany, Gebunden
Power and Property in Medieval Germany
- Economic and Social Change C.900-1300
- Publisher:
- OUP Oxford, 09/2004
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780199272211
- Item number:
- 5188619
- Volume:
- 224 Pages
- Copyright-Jahr:
- 2004
- Weight:
- 390 g
- Format:
- 216 x 140 mm
- Thickness:
- 16 mm
- Release date:
- 30.9.2004
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
In Power and Property in Medieval Germany Professor Arnold takes a fresh look at the problems posed by power and property in a medieval society, in this case the German kingdom. In a series of interrelated studies covering the period 700-1500, but concentrating on the tenth to thirteenth centuries, Arnold explores the social and economic changes that influenced the real lives of people living in Germany.
A number of themes are examined, including the kind of society that emerged along the Rhine and to the east of it in a period when it is hard to identify a Germany; the complex relationship between peasant and lord; the finances and resources of the German crown, the largest single landowner; the social and economic impact of the urban milieu with its towns large and small; and the entanglement of Church and aristocracy.
Whilst medieval people did not share mercantilist or post-Adam Smith concepts of economic forces at work in society, Arnold fruitfully applies the ideas and rationalizations of modern economics to medieval evidence, leading, at times, to unexpected conclusions.
