2015/2016

2016/2017

DM270

SECS-P/12 (ECONOMIC HISTORY)

DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES

HISTORY OF EUROPE

MEDIEVALE

2°

2nd semester (27/02/2017 - 01/06/2017)

6

36 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

RIZZO MARIO VALENTINO (titolare) - 6 ECTS

None

The course aims at providing students with a wide-ranging reconstruction of preindustrial European society and economy (ca. 1000-1700). For this purpose, as an introduction some basic 'structural' issues are discussed in historical perspective, such as demand and supply, the factors of production, productivity. Then the course moves on to examine a few crucial phenomena which characterised the social and economic history of preindustrial Europe, in the wider context of world history.

The course aims at providing students with a wide-ranging reconstruction of preindustrial European society and economy (ca. 1000-1700).
A short summary of the main topics to be covered in the course includes:

The basic features
- Demand
- The factors of production
- Production and productivity

The great historical phenomena
- The Urban Revolution
- Population
- Technology
- Enterprise, credit, and money
- Economic policies
- Incomes, production, and consumption 1000-1500
- The changing balance of economic power in Europe and the world 1500-1700
- Preindustrial Europe and the dawn of the Industrial Revolution

Lectures

Carlo M. CIPOLLA, Uomini, tecniche, economie, Bologna, il Mulino, 2013

Carlo M. CIPOLLA, Storia economica dell'Europa pre-industriale, Bologna, il Mulino, 2009 (except for part ii, chapter 4: "Imprese, credito e moneta")

Oral exam

During the course, a few seminars will be held by Prof. Luciano Maffi