Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe

Name: Money and Its Use in Medieval Europe
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ISBN: 9780521375900

ISBN-10: 0521375908

ISBN-13: 9780521375900

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Authors: Peter Spufford

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This is the first full-scale study of the history of money, not merely of coinage, to have been written for medieval Europe. The book is not limited to one country, or to any one period or theme, but extracts the most important elements for the historian across the broadest possible canvas. Its scope extends from the mining of precious metals on the one hand, to banking, including the use of cheques and bills of exchange, on the other. Chapters are arranged chronologically, rather than regionally or thematically, and offer a detailed picture of the many and changing roles played by money, in all its forms, in all parts of Europe throughout the Middle Ages. Thus money is seen as having…

Book details

List price: $63.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/21/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 484
Size: 6.81" wide x 9.72" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English



List of maps


List of tables


List of graphs


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Before the Commerical Revolution



Roman-Barbarian discontinuity



The appearance of the denier and the revival of trade



'Feudel' deniers and 'viking' dirhams



Saxon silver and the expansion of minting



The Commercial Revolution of the Thirteenth Century



New silver c.1160-c.1330



The balance of payments and the movement of silver



European silver and African gold



New mints



Ingots of silver



New money



The place of money in the commercial revolution of the thirteenth century



The Late Middle Ages



The victory of gold



The scourage of debasement



The money of Europe around 1400



The bullion-famines of the Late Middle Ages



Money on the eve of the price revolution


Conclusion


Appendices


Coin index


General index