Steven A. Epstein is Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of numerous articles and five books on aspects of medieval social and economic history, including Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528 and Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1400.

'The clarity and precision of Steven Epstein's survey of the history of the later medieval economy are without doubt two of its most wonderful features. Students and seasoned scholars alike will actually relish reading the book. … This book is synthesis of a very high order.' William Chester Jordan, Princeton University and author of The Great Famine

• 1. Europe at the millennium; 2. Agriculture and rural life; 3. Trade 1000–1350; 4. Cities, guilds, and political economy; 5. Economic and social thought; 6. The Great Hunger and the Big Death: the calamitous fourteenth century; 7. Technology and consumerism; 8. War and social unrest; 9. Fifteenth-century portraits.

Steven A. Epstein is Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of numerous articles and five books on aspects of medieval social and economic history, including Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528 and Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1400.

'The clarity and precision of Steven Epstein's survey of the history of the later medieval economy are without doubt two of its most wonderful features. Students and seasoned scholars alike will actually relish reading the book. … This book is synthesis of a very high order.' William Chester Jordan, Princeton University and author of The Great Famine

• 1. Europe at the millennium; 2. Agriculture and rural life; 3. Trade 1000–1350; 4. Cities, guilds, and political economy; 5. Economic and social thought; 6. The Great Hunger and the Big Death: the calamitous fourteenth century; 7. Technology and consumerism; 8. War and social unrest; 9. Fifteenth-century portraits.

Steven A. Epstein is Ahmanson-Murphy Distinguished Professor of Medieval History at the University of Kansas. He is the author of numerous articles and five books on aspects of medieval social and economic history, including Genoa and the Genoese, 958–1528 and Purity Lost: Transgressing Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1000–1400.

'The clarity and precision of Steven Epstein's survey of the history of the later medieval economy are without doubt two of its most wonderful features. Students and seasoned scholars alike will actually relish reading the book. … This book is synthesis of a very high order.' William Chester Jordan, Princeton University and author of The Great Famine

• 1. Europe at the millennium; 2. Agriculture and rural life; 3. Trade 1000–1350; 4. Cities, guilds, and political economy; 5. Economic and social thought; 6. The Great Hunger and the Big Death: the calamitous fourteenth century; 7. Technology and consumerism; 8. War and social unrest; 9. Fifteenth-century portraits.