The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries
The economy of Antwerp in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had a very special dynamism. It underwent the processes of rise, expansion, maturity and decadence with peculiar intensity. It gave an impressive stimulus to the commercial currents, maritime and contin ental, which converg...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1963, 1963
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1963 |
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Table of Contents:
- I. The interdecennial fluctuations of the Antwerp economy and their impact on Brabant and Flanders (1356–1619)
- I: The real significance of the dominance of Flanders and the difficulties of monetary recovery (1356–1405)
- II: The last flowering of the medieval economy (1406–1437)
- III: The failure of the medieval economy and the slow emergence of modern conditions (1438–1477)
- IV: Political chaos (1477–1492)
- V: Antwerp’s emergence as the metropolis of Western Europe (c. 1493–1520)
- VI: The decisive years (1521–c. 1550)
- VII: The slowing down of commercial expansion offset by industrial growth (c. 1551–1572)
- VIII: Crisis in the Netherlands and the final phase of Antwerp’s decline (1572–1587)
- Epilogue: The slow but courageous recovery (1588–1619)
- II. Secular trends and structural changes
- I: Agricultural trends in Brabant
- II: Trends in the trade of the Southern Netherlands and Europe
- III: Trends in financial development
- IV: Tendencies in industrial and social structure
- V: Typology of the crises and secular expansion
- VI: The significance of the price trends
- Conclusion