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Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe from Part I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 September 2019
The mid-fifteenth century provides a good vantage point from which to locate the salient characteristics of Europe’s economies after a long period of adversity. For nearly two centuries, Europe had suffered repeated harvest failures, famines, and epidemics (including, in 1347–1353, the notorious Black Death); abandoned fields and deserted villages; diminished manufacturing and mining output; disrupted domestic and international trade; destructive wars and rebellions. Conditions had not been uniformly difficult. Epidemic disease spared some areas; elsewhere, post-plague labor shortages boosted many workers’ wages; peasants were able to add vacant land to their holdings; new crops, crafts, and commercial areas developed.
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