The 13 articles of this collection on economic history (six are in French, the rest are in English) were published between 1961 and 1998. Van Uytven's research is often carried out through the collecting, examination, and statistical analysis of archival records; the results provide a concrete notion of the items important to the people of this place and era. The subjects covered include beer consumption in Bruges, wine consumption in Brabant, the impact of the invention of the fulling mill, several articles on cloth production and technique, economic decline in late medieval Bruges, and the power of the Dukes of Burgundy in Flanders and the Brabant. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
The subject of this volume is the relationship between production and consumption, considered not only as the supply and demand sides of economic life, but within the broader context of the societies of the Low Countries between the 12th and the 16th centuries. Amongst the topics covered are the reality of the so-called 'late medieval depression', comparisons between the great merchant cities of Bruges and Antwerp, and the actual importance of the trade in art and luxury goods. One group of articles then looks in detail at the cloth industry, which remained the mainstay of the region's wealth, and the effects upon it of changes in technology and in fashion, while the volume concludes with two studies specially translated from Dutch, on wine and beer consumption.
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