Innovation and Medieval Communities. The Circulation of Ideas and Practices in and out of the Town (1200-1500)

This book highlights the complex relationships of innovation and transformation in communities in Northwest Europe between 13th and 15th century by observing the reception of innovations and the strategies of their diffusion or rejection. The creation of new things and the destruction of old things is a principle of capitalism and apparently well known to us. The Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter expressed this in the formula of 'creative destruction'.