Early and Medieval Periods in German Economic History
Thilo R. Huning|Fabian Wahl
The study of the Holy Roman Empire, a medieval state on territory modern-day Germany and Central Europe, has attracted generations qualitative economic historians quantitative scholars from various fields. Its bordering position between Germanic legacies, its Carolingian inheritance, numerous small states emerging 1150 onward, one hand, are suspected to have hindered market integration, other, allowed compete. This inspired many research questions around differences communalities in culture, origin state, integration good financial markets, technology inventions, such printing press. While little is still known about economy rural population, cities their conditions been extensively studied angles geography, institutionalism, for influence early human capital accumulation. literature stressed that at this time cannot be seen as closed economy, but only context Europe wider world. Global events, Black Death, European particularities, Catholic Church, never stopped countries’ borders. As such, provides an understanding prelude radical changes, Lutheran Reformation, religious wars, coming modern age with innovations.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance