The course will analyze the main aspects of the economic organization of the Middle Ages, focusing on the European Renaissance of the thirteenth century, the expansion of the urban economy and the reorganization of production and business activities, the changes in the fifteenth century with the shift of the leading role of the economy from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, the Spanish and Portuguese expansion and the role of England; the English Industrial Revolution; the models of industrial development.
The course is divided into three modules:
1) The historical debate on the scientific status of economic history
2) Outline of the economic history of pre-industrial
3) The instruments of historical sources for the economic history of medieval and modern age. Heuristic and methodological problems