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The "crisis of feudalism" and price movements in the late Middle Ages John Day In a critique of the neo-Marxist model of late medieval economic developments proposed by Guy Bois in his study of Normandy in the 14th-16th centuries, it is argued that price movements were determined by climatic, demographic and monetary factors : short- term fluctuations reflected, as a rule, monetary "mutations" and the state of the harvests : the rise in wage rates was primarily a response to the labor shortage and not the result of a hypothetical increase in productivity ; finally, the long price deflation of the late Middle Ages was due to a severe contraction of bullion stocks rather than a century of farm surplussesDay John. « Crise du féodalisme » et ...
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