First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in 1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century.
Henri Pirenne Membre de L'academie Royale de Belgique, Professor Emertimus De l'Unversitie de Gand.
Introduction 1. The Revival of Commerce 2. The Towns 3. Land and the Rural Classes 4. Commerce to the End of the Thirteenth Century 5. International Trade to the End of the Thirteenth Century 6. Urban Economy and the Regulation of Industry 7. The Economic Changes of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
