Perspectives of Global Economic History in the Late Middle Ages

• Autor(a) principal: Erra, Felipe Mendes
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Esboços (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/esbocos/article/view/2175-7976.2020.e66839

This article aims to present the general lines of a theoretical model capable of conducting an economic approach of the Late Middle Ages from a global perspective. So to, we will start by analyzing the difficulties inherent to this project. In the first section, we review different strategies adopted by the best historiography considering the challenge of conducting an investigation using Macro Scale as a geographic unit of observation. In the second section, we will briefly present some proposals from the Global History, presenting a historiographical situation rooted in the opposition of two embarrassing models for the researcher in Medieval History: a theory that sees the beginning of global relations in the 16th century, and a theory that identifies global relations in the Neolithic Revolution, granting small importance, when not an unfavorable judgment, for the medieval period. In the third section, from the analysis of the existing trade flows between the Black Sea, Italy and northwest Europe, during the 14th century, we will have the opportunity to clarify some features of the transcontinental trade in the period. Finally, we will end with a brief reflection about the possibility of building a theoretical model capable of investigating the long-distance economic connections that existed in an essentially fragmented world, avoiding abstract general theorems in favor of the observation of local singularities.