Boissonnade P. Life and Work In Medieval Europe

Routledge, 2005. — 430 p.Erudite yet readable work traces the economic evolution of Europe from 5th to 15th century. Focusing on working people, it covers breakup of feudal estates, development of small craft industries and large capitalist enterprises, rise of wage laborers, development of technical advances in industry and agriculture, rise of international commerce and finance.Prosper Boissonnade (1862-1935) is a French historian and economist, Dean of the Faculty of Letters of Poitiers.