Pounds Norman J.G. An Economic History of Medieval Europe

Routledge, 1994. — 552 p.A clear and readable account of the development of the European economy and its infrastructure from the second century to 1500. Professor Pounds provides a balanced view of the many controversies within the subject, and he has a particular gift for bringing a human dimension to its technicalities. He deals with continental Europe as a whole, including an unusually rich treatment of Eastern Europe. For this welcome new edition - the first in twenty years - text and bibliography have been reworked and updated throughout, and the book redesigned and reset.Norman John Greville Pounds (February 1912 – 2006) was an English geographer and historian. Pounds began teaching historical geography at The University of Cambridge in 1945 before moving onto Indiana University in the 1950s where he was a geography professor until 1968. He continued to teach at various institutions for several decades, finally stopping in 2004 at the age of 92