Abstract
IN RECENT YEARS, historians have employed quantitative methods to address problems of the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of medieval Europe in new ways or with a sophistication heretofore impossible. Although evidence for many areas and for the period before the Black Death (1340s) is sketchy and difficult to interpret, we now have many socioeconomic profiles of towns and regions. Statistical methods have also enriched broader studies of demography, urban networks, and long-term economic trends.' The, same cannot be said about our knowledge and understanding of economic trends in Kievan and Mongol Rus', and for good reason. The earliest documentary evidence capable of being analyzed statistically relates to the last third of the fifteenth century and mostly to Novgorod.2 Historians, therefore, have relied heavily on narrative sources. As a result, their conclusions about economic trends in Kievan Rus', the economic impact of the Mongol invasion
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