Economic inequality on the eve of the Late Medieval crisis. Two regions compared: Tuscany and Northern France (c.1295-c.1320) Ghent University
Since the Great Recession of 2007, research on the causes of economic inequality has been at the centre of both societal and academic debates, also among historians. Whereas most scholars have focused on contemporary and early modern societies, I propose to address this issue by using European rural society in the 14th century as a laboratory to study and explain the high pre-Black Death economic inequality suggested by previous studies. This ...