ECO 301Y Power Point Lectures

Professor John Munro passed away on December 23, 2013. This site is maintained and kept online as an archive. For more infomation please visit the Centre for Medieval Studies

Professor John H. Munro
Department of Economics
University of Toronto
150 St. George Street
Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G7
CANADA
Updated on 30 October 2013
POWER POINT SLIDES FOR LECTURES IN ECO 301Y:
Economic History of Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ca. 1250 - 1750

IN POWER POINT and PDF formats: for the academic year 2013 - 2014

Special Notes for this page on Power Point Presentations:

The PDF files posted below are simply conversions of the original Power Point documents into PDF format, and not separate, different documents.
All Power Point files have been uploaded here in Word Office 2003 format (.ppt), and not in the Word Office 2007 version (.pptx), which is not readable in earlier versions of Word Office.
If, on opening the Power Point file, you receive this message -- "Microsoft Office has detected a potential security concern" -- just ignore it, and click on CANCEL, in the box on the lower right.
While you yourself can edit the Power Point versions, and add you own notes, you cannot edit the PDF file version.
Whether you print out the files in Power Point or in Adobe PDF formats, pay attention to the programme's printer instructions: especially on how to print more than one slide per page; and to print the pages in either Portrait or Landscape format. In particular, follow these the instructions on 'Printing a Power Point Presentation: in the website for Portal Information, drop-down menu for 'Student'.
The dates below refer to the Wednesdays on which the lecture was given, and not when the Power Point and PDF files were posted.
With the exception of the supplementary (and 'voluntary') topic no. 16, in week 12 (December), all of the previously posted Power Point files (and those converted into PDF), for lectures last given, in 2009 - 2010, have now been removed from the Economics server. If you click on the URL for any of these deleted files, and for any lectures not yet given, you will receive a 404 Error message, stating thet the file cannot be found.
The Power Point slides, once fully revised, will be posted just before the Wednesday class for the scheduled lecture, some time before 12 noon -- unless I am still making major revisions. You can check on Blackboard's Portal or my website to see if I have posted them by noon on Wednesdays. If so, you can print out the slides and bring them with you to class, for making notes while the lecture is presented.
I retain the right to revise them, once again, after class and thus to post a newer versiom sometime after the class.

Some Observations about Power-Point Presentations and Student Attendance

FIRST SEMESTER: SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 2013 weeks 1 - 12

Powerpoint and PDF lecture summaries by Power Point file number, week number (1 -24), date, topic, and lecture number:

See the course outline and the corresponding schedule of lecture topics (online).

(1a) Week 1, 11 September 2013: Lecture no. 1: Course requirements, and course introduction: section I: Survey of the Later Medieval European Economy, ca. 1000 - ca. 1500: Economic Growth and Economic Decline during the 'Commercial Revolution' and 'Great Depression' eras.
- In Power Point;
- In PDF format
(1b) Week 1, 11 September 2013: Lecture no. 2: section II: Macro-economic changes in the European Economy, 1280-1520: A: on the Dynamics of European Population Changes, 1000 - 1500 (Part 1):
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(2) Week 2: 18 September 2013 Lecture no. 2: Section II: Macro-economic changes in the European Economy, 1280-1520: Part A: on on the Dynamics of European Population Changes, 1000 - 1500 (Part 2):
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(3) Week 3: 25 September 2013: Lecture no. 2, II: Macro-economic changes in the European Economy, 1280-1520: Part A: the Dynamics of European Population Changes, 1000 - 1500 (part 3):
- In Power Point
-In PDF format
(4) Week 3: 25 September 2013: Lecture no. 3, II: Macro-economic changes in the European Economy, 1280-1520: Part B: Money and Monetary Changes in the Medieval European Economy to 1500 (part 1)
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(5) Week 4: 2 October 2013: Lecture no. 3, II: Macro-economic changes in the European Economy, 1280-1520: Part B: Money and Monetary Changes in the Medieval European Economy to 1500 (part 2)
- In Power Point
-In PDF format
(6) Week 4: 2 October 2013: Lecture no. 4, II: Macro-economic changes in the European Economy, 1280-1520: Part C: Long Waves and Price Trends in Later-Medieval Europe: the role of monetary and demographic factors (part 1)
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(7) Week 5: 9 October 2013: Lecture no. 4, II: Macro-economic changes in the European Economy, 1280-1520: Part C: Long Waves and Price Trends in Later-Medieval Europe: the role of monetary and demographic factors (part 2)
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(8) Week 5: 9 October 2013: Lecture no. 5: III: The Barriers to Medieval Economic Growth, part 1: Western European Feudalism in its agrarian context
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(9) Week 6: 16 October 2013: Lecture no. 6: III: The Barriers to Medieval Economic Growth, part 2: Medieval Manorialism and Peasant Serfdom
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(10) Week 7: 23 October 2013: Lecture no. 7A: IV: Late Medieval Agrarian Changes (part 1): the decline of serfdom in western Europe and the rise of serfdom in eastern Europe; and
Lecture no. 7B: IV: Late Medieval Agrarian Changes (part 2): Late Medieval Agrarian Changes: in the Mediterranean World: Italy, southern France, and Spain
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(11) Week 8: 30 October 2013: Lecture no. 7C: - IV: Late Medieval Agrarian Changes: Agrarian changes in later medieval England, before and after the Black Death: from ca. 1290 to ca. 1520 (with the early Tudor Enclosures)(part 3)
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
- Part of this lecture was based on a conference paper that I delivered (in Power Point) to a conference in honour of Professor John Hatcher (on his retirement), at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, on 10 August 2009 -- when much of my archival research data in this paper was presented for the first time. Here is the full printed text of that paper.
(12) Week 9: 6 November 2013: Lecture no. 8: section V: Late-Medieval Manufacturing Industries: European Woollen Textiles, 1250 to 1500
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(13): Week 10: 13 November 2013: Lecture no. 9: section VI: Banking, Credit, and Financial Institutions in Late-Medieval Europe, ca. 1280 - ca. 1520: the role of the Church
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(14) Week 11: 20 November 2013: Lecture no. 10: section VII: Part I: International Commerce: the Mediterranean World and the Italians; The Baltic-North Sea Worlds: the German Hanseatic League and the Rise of the Dutch
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(15) Week 12: 27 November 2013: Lecture no. 10: International Commerce: Part II: England, the Baltic, South Germany, and the Rise of Antwerp:
and Lecture No. 13: the Rise of Portugal, the Portuguese Empire, and the Beginnings of European Overseas Explorations, Colonization, and Imperialism: in Africa, Asia, and the Americas
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(16): Week 12: 27 November 2013: Supplementary Lecture (voluntary attendance): Imperialism, Racism, Darwin, and Vitamin D: a 'Solar' Hypothesis on the Evolution of our Homo Sapiens specie
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
This completes the set of Power Point presentations for the 12 weeks of the first semester of ECO 301Y: the Fall Semester of 2013.

SECOND SEMESTER: JANUARY TO APRIL 2014: weeks 13 - 24

Powerpoint and PDF lecture summaries by week number, date, topic, and lecture number:

(17): Week 13: 8 January 2014: Lecture no. 14: section VIII: Macro- and Structural Changes in the European Economy: part A: Population: Demographic Movements and Changes, c. 1500 - c. 1750
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(18): Week 14: 15 January 2014: Lecture no. 15: section VIII: Macro- and Structural Changes in the European Economy: part B: Money and Monetary Movements during the eras of the Price Revolution (c.1520-c.1640) and the 'General Crisis' (ca. 1620 - ca. 1740).
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(19): Week 15: 22 January 2014: Lecture no. 16: section VIII: Macro- and Structural Changes in the European Economy: part C: Price Movements during the eras of the the Price Revolution (c.1520-c.1640) and the 'General Crisis' (ca. 1620 - ca. 1740).
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(20): Week 16: 29 January 2014: Lecture no. 17: section IX: Agrarian Changes in Early Modern Europe: Part B: England: the Enclosure Movement in Tudor-Stuart England, ca. 1520 - ca. 1640
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(21): Weeks 16-17: 29 January and 5 February 2014: Lecture no. 18: section IX: Agrarian Changes in Early Modern Europe: Part C: England: Technological and Institutional Changes in English Agriculture, ca. 1520 - ca. 1740:
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(22): Week 17: 5 February 2014: Lecture no. 19: section IX: Agrarian Changes in Early Modern Europe: Part D: Agriculture in Early-Modern France, 15th to 18th Centuries (to the French Revolution, 1789)
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(23): Week 18: 12 February 2014: Lecture no. 20: section X: Commerce: Changing Patterns of Regional and International Trade.
Part A: The Dutch Commercial Empire: Apogee, Hegemony, and Decline, ca. 1520 - 1750; and
Part B: Dutch Shipbuilding and Commercial Supremacy: the Industrial Link
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
Note that there will be no lecture on Wednesday, 19 February 2014: since this day is part of the annual winter Reading Week.
(24): Weeks 19 and 20: 26 February and 5 March 2014: Lecture no. 21: section X: Commerce: Changing Patterns of Regional and International Trade, Part C: The English Overseas Commercial and Colonial Empires: on of the pathway to industrialization
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(25): Week 20: 5 March 2014: Lecture no. 22: section X: Commerce: Changing Patterns of Regional and International Trade, Part D: Mercantilism, Money, and the State in Foreign Trade, 16th to 18th Centuries
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(26): Week 21: 12 March 2014: Lectures nos. 23 and 24: section XI: Banking, Finance, and Business Organization, 1520 - 1750.
Part A: Financial Innovations in England and the Low Countries: Private and Public Finance;
Part B: Dutch Banking and Finance in the 17th and 18th Centuries
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(27): Week 22: 19 March 2014: Lectures nos. 25 and 26: section XI: Banking, Finance, and Business Organization, 1520 - 1750.
Part C: ENGLAND: The Joint Stock Companies; the origins of the modern business corporation
Part D: ENGLAND: Branking and Financial Institutions, Private and Public Part D: ENGLAND: Banking and Financial Institutions
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(28): Week 23: 26 March 2014: Lecture no. 27: Section XII: Manufacturing Industries: Industrial Change in Early-Modern Europe, 1520 - 1750:
Part A: Wool-Based Textiles (the Old and New Draperies) and Cotton Textiles, to the Industrial Revolution (ca. 1760)
- In Power Point
- In PDF format
(29): Week 24: 2 April 2014: Lecture no. 28: Section XII: Manufacturing Industries: Industrial Change in Early-Modern Europe, 1520 - 1750:
Part B: Industrial Change in Early-Modern England: Coal and Coal-Burning Industries: the Nef Thesis; and
Part C: The Birth of the Modern English Iron Industry: Industrial Capitalism, Growth, and Stagnation.
- In Power Point
- In PDF format

This concludes the lectures for the second semester, and for the academic year 2013 - 2014.

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POWER POINT SLIDES FOR LECTURES IN ECO 301Y: Economic History of Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ca. 1250 - 1750

IN POWER POINT and PDF formats: for the academic year 2013 - 2014

FIRST SEMESTER: SEPTEMBER TO NOVEMBER 2013 weeks 1 - 12

Powerpoint and PDF lecture summaries by Power Point file number, week number (1 -24), date, topic, and lecture number:

SECOND SEMESTER: JANUARY TO APRIL 2014: weeks 13 - 24

Powerpoint and PDF lecture summaries by week number, date, topic, and lecture number:

POWER POINT SLIDES FOR LECTURES IN ECO 301Y:
Economic History of Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe, ca. 1250 - 1750