Recommended reading for seminar 2

There are no official readings for this seminar. As long as you in advance try to answer the questions for this seminar, any source you may want to use is fine. However, I would recommend you to read the following from the curriculum:

1) Allen: Ch. 1 & 2

2) Milanovic: Ch. 1 & 3

The recommended chapters above is particularly relevant for the first two questions. Questions 3a and 3b are based on the lectures. I suggest using google for help answering this, but I would also highly recommend some background readings from Neal and Cameron:

3) Neal and Cameron: Ch. 4, p.78-81 (on the Black Death) 

4) Neal and Cameron: Ch. 5 (European development 1500-1700)

Remember, reading before the seminar is much more efficient than reading up on this afterwards. Don't waste your own precious time (or mine), prepare as well as you can before the seminar:)