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This pioneering work presents the first comprehensive economic history of medieval Denmark. It puts data produced by more than a century of historical research into a new context and includes a multitude of information based on primary research. The book abounds in knowledge of natural and human resources, rural life, urban industries, tax and commodity trade. Arguing that the development of the Danish resources from the eleventh to the middle of the fourteenth century cannot be viewed simply as a period of prosperity, and conversely that the Late Middle Ages were characterized as much by growth as by recession, the book places itself in an international historiographical controversy. The Danish Resources will become an indispensable standard work for students of Danish and north European medieval history.
Contents
Abbreviations .. vii
List of Illustrations and Maps .. ix
Introduction .. xv
The Natural World . 1
Woods and Moors .. 3
Arable Land .. 25
Marine Resources . 45
Climate .. 59
Human Resources . 79
Knowledge and Literacy .. 81
Population . 111c
Rural Life .. 141
Villages .. 143
Manors .. 165
Rural Resources .. 197
Urban Industries . 225
Towns and Markets .. 227
Crafts ... 259
Tax and Trade .. 297
Rural Levies and Royal Finances . 299
Money ... 323
Commodity Trade .. 353
Growth and Recession: A Synthesis . 381
Bibliography .. 403
Index of Persons and Places .. 431
Subject Index .. 441
