ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS,
AND FIGURES
ILLUSTRATIONS
A Country Wedding by Pieter Brueghel the Elder
The storage of foodstuffs in Strasbourg
The Winged Mill by Johannes Stradanus
The development of ships’ rigging, 1430–1600
Eighteenth-century English merchant vessel
A water-powered throwing mill by Vittorio Zonca
A mint at work during the Middle Ages
Barter and the exchange of money
A real de a ocho (piece of eight)
MAPS
The spread of the Black Death in Europe, 1347–53
The spread of the fulling mill in various regions of Europe
English mints, Athelstan to 973
The Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula
The foundation of towns in east central Europe
The historical formation of the Swiss Confederation
The Portuguese advance along the African coast
The routes followed by the Spanish fleets
Popular revolts in France in the seventeenth century
FIGURES
1.1 Income distribution in Great Britain in 1688 and 1962
2.1 Age and sex structure of the population of Sweden in 1750 and 1950
5.1 Mortality and fertility in a French village (Couffé) at the end of the sixteenth century
5.2 Trends in mortality, fertility, and marriage during a typical demographic crisis
5.3 The mortality rate in Sweden, 1749–1950
8.1 Monetary wages of a building craftsman and a laborer in southern England, 1264–1700
8.2 Real wage-rate of a building craftsman expressed as a composite physical unit of consumable goods in southern England, 1264–1700
9.1 Rate of interest (A) and discount rate (B) on bonds of the Bank of St George, Genoa (Italy), 1522–1620
10.1 Economic trends in selected European countries, 1500–1700
10.2 Trends in the export of raw wool and cloth from England, 1349–1540