This course is an analytical survey of five crucial centuries in European historical economic development, from 1250 to 1750: more broadly, on the origins and evolution of the modern European industrial economy and society, from the height of the medieval Commercial Revolution in the mid to late 13th century, through the era of the Black Death and the late-medieval crises of the 14th and early 15th centuries, followed by the Age of Overseas Expansion, beginning in the mid-15th century, and the Price Revolution era of the 16th century, and then the 17th Century ‘General Crisis’ era, to the eve of the British ‘Industrial Revolution’ in the mid-18th century.