sympathetic towards libertarianism?
I am reading the “School of Salamanca” and loving it.
Any well-written history books with a libertarian non-biased look at the middle ages? Doesn’t have to have an economic theme. Could be military, political, religious, general history, etc…
Austro-libertarian historian Tom Woods wrote “How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization”.
I also HIGHLY recommend checking out some works by the Arab economist and historian (amongst other things, he was in every way a Renaissance man) Ibn Khaldun
Dr. Angeliki E. Laiou titled "Economic History of Byzantium", this is supposdley the definitive version of the Byzantine Economy (I ordered this 3 days ago so I have not read it, it will cost about $100 paperback as it is 3 volumes).
Off the top of my head, and in relation to this website, those are the best three suggestions I can give while covering the 3 major focuses of Middle Ages (Greek, Latin, and Arab) and to try to show at least somewhat of a libertarian/ political/economic perspective.
Are you interested more in Middle ages from a Latin, Greek, or Arab point of view? What are you mostly interested in about the Middle Ages? The more specific you are the more helpful people can be, as there is a plethora of books out there
History of Economic Thought: Economic Thought Before Adam Smith [ Volume One ] by Murray N. Rothbard.
Nice. Thanks to both of you, good suggestions. These should satisfy my apetite for now. Of course, if anyone has any more suggestions, keep them coming…
Anything by Regine Pernoud. But if you can only read one, I recommend Those Terrible Middle Ages: Debunking the Myths -- a different look at the period**.**