This edited collection demonstrates how economic history can be analysed using both
quantitative and qualitative methods connecting statistical research with the social cultural
and psychological aspects of history. With their focus on the time between the end of the
commercial revolution and the Black Death (c. 1300) and the Thirty Years' War (c. 1600) Kypta
et al. redress a significant lack of published work regarding economic history methodology in
the premodern period. Case studies stem from the Holy Roman Empire one of the most important
economic regions in premodern times and reconnect the German premodern economic history
approach with the grand narratives that have been developed mainly for Western European
regions. Methodological approaches stemming from economics as well as from sociology and
cultural studies show how multifaceted research in economic history can be and how it might
accordingly offer us new insights into premodern economies.
