Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600
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- ISBN 9780333585320
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 2001
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 surveys the social and economic development of the German-speaking lands from the age of the Black Death to the eve of the Thirty Years War. It examines the political geography and social structure of the Holy Roman Empire as a constitutional polity in both church and state deeply etched by feudal-aristocratic values. The book questions the validity of a 'late medieval agrarian crisis', and the traditional account of the divergent social and economic development between simple landlordship in the West and a revived seigneurialism east of the Elbe. Tom Scott examines in detail patterns of regional and economic change and town-country relations, and the emergence of city-states in Germany and Switzerland. Broad coverage is given to demands for reform within the Empire, which influenced the sixteenth-century religious reformers, as well as to the many urban and rural revolts. The book concludes with reflections on Germany in the age of confessionalization and social discipline, including the rise of a witch craze. This comprehensive survey incorporates the latest research, emphasising regional analysis as the only way to comprehend Germany's diversity.
TOM SCOTT was Reader in History at the University of Liverpool until his retirement in 2003. He has been an Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation Fellow and a Leverhulme Research Fellow. He is author of 10 books and over 50 articles on town-country relations and regional systems in late medieval and early modern Germany, the German Peasants' War and the German Reformation.
