The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire, Volume 2: Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages (The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire, Volume 2)

The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, first published in 1952, was a survey by an international group of specialist scholars covering trade and industry in pre-Roman, Roman and Byzantine Europe, the medieval trade of northern and southern Europe, and the histories of medieval woollen manufacture, mining and metallurgy, and building in stone. This second edition, in addition to revising most chapters and the bibliographies appended to them, also fills gaps which arose from the wartime and post-war circumstances in which the first edition was written. New chapters provide accounts of the trade and industry of eastern Europe, of medieval Europe's trade with Asia and Africa, and of medieval coinage and currency. Taken with volumes I and III of the series, this volume is designed to complete a comprehensive review of the economic history of medieval Europe as a whole. It was planned by the late Sir Michael Postan, and was largely completed under his editorship. v. 1. The agraria life of the Middle Ages, edited by M.M. Postan. v. 2. Trade and industry in the Middle Ages, edited by M.M. Postan and e. Miller. v. 3. Economic organization and policies in the Middle Ages, edited by M. Postan, E.E. Rich and E. Miller. v. 4. The economy of expanding Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, edited by E.E. Rich and C.H. Wilson. v. 5. The economic organization of early modern Europe, edited by E.E. Rich and C.H. Wilson. v. 6. The industrial revolutions and after: incomes, population and technological change, edited by H.J. Habakkuk and M. Poston. v. 7. The industrial economies: capital, labour, and enterprise, edited by P. Mathias and M.M. Postan.- pt. 1. Britain, France, Germany, and Scandinavia.- pt. 2. The United States, Japan, and Russia. v. 8. The industrial economies: the development of economic and social policies, edited by P. Mathias and S. Pollard. Trade and industry in barbarian Europe till Roman times / by David L. Clarke -- Trade and industry under the later Roman Empire in the West / by Frank William Walbank -- Byzantine trade and industry / by Steven Runciman -- The trade of medieval Europe : the North / by Michael Postan -- The trade of medieval Europe : the South / by Robert S. Lopez -- Asia, Africa and the trade of medieval Europe / by David Abulafia -- Trade and industry in Eastern Europe before 1200 / by Aleksander Gieysztor -- The trade of Eastern Europe in the later Middle Ages / by Marian Malowist -- The woollen industry / by Eleanora Carus-Wilson -- Mining and metallurgy in medieval civilisation / by John U. Nef -- Building in stone in medieval Western Europe / by Gwilym Peredur Jones -- Coinage and currency / by Peter Spufford The antecedents of trade and industry in the European continent extend continuously through time to the activities of the earliest hominids, a million years ago, in a Europe that we would now scarcely recognise; a Europe with an unfamiliar geography, a different climate and an exotic fauna and flora. Volume I of The Cambridge Economic History of Europe is a survey of agrarian life in Roman and Byzantine Europe.