Gold Coins of the Middle Ages
Author : Deutsche Bundesbank
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Coins, Medieval
ISBN : 9783921839386
Author : Deutsche Bundesbank
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Coins, Medieval
ISBN : 9783921839386
Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,39 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9789004372467
Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages presents an original and valuable set of studies into aspects of a critical but challenging category of material.
Author : Peter Spufford
Publisher : London : Offices of the Royal Historical Society
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 069118268X
Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Author : Peter Spufford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521375900
This is a full-scale study that explores every aspect of money in Europe and the Middle Ages.
Author : Georgius Agricola
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486318397
One of the most important scientific classics, and first to offer detailed technical drawings illustrating mining techniques, field research, and the earliest scientific methods. Translated by Herbert Hoover. 289 woodcuts.
Author : Frank L. Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2021
Category : ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
ISBN : 019751765X
"Money may seem hopelessly mundane and culturally meaningless, but it has dominated--and documented--world history since the time of the ancient Greeks. This heavily illustrated book provides a spirited account of the first coinages and their living descendants in our pockets and purses. It explains how people from Jesus to The Beatles have used numismatics to explore the social, political, economic, and religious history of the world"--
Author : Alan M. Stahl
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780801863837
This is the first book to study in detail the workings of a pre-modern mint. Based on two coin hoards of 5,000 and 14,000 coins, documentary evidence and scientific analysis, Stahl presents a history of Zecca from its origins in the 9th century to 1423 and the dominance of this Venetian currency in Mediterranean trade.
Author : Jean Favier
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"Eminent medievalist Jean Favier introduces and analyzes the political, social, moral, and economic milieux of the late Middle Ages that engendered Europe's transformation from feudalism to capitalism. ... Favier reveals that the ultimate consequence of this risk-taking was not merely the accumulation of wealth by such families as the Medici and the Fuggers, but the transposition of social and aesthetic values upon the populace, leading to the rise of the middle class."--Jacket.
Author : Kevin Butcher
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 10,49 MB
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789254019
The debasement of coinage, particularly of silver, was a common feature of pre-modern monetary systems. Most coinages were issued by state authorities and the condition of a coinage is often seen (rightly or wrongly) as an indicator of the broader fiscal health of the state that produced it. While in some cases the motives behind the debasements or reductions in standards are clear, in many cases the intentions of the issuing authorities are uncertain. Various explanations have been advanced: fiscal motives (such as a desire to profit or a to cover a deficit caused by the failure to balance expenditure and revenues); monetary motives (such as changing demand for coined money or a desire to maintain monetary stability in the face of changing values of raw materials or labour costs); pressure from groups within society that would profit from debasement; misconduct at the mint; or the decline of existing monetary standards due to circulation and wear of the coinage in circulation. Certain explanations have tended to gain favour with monetary historians of specific periods, partly reflecting the compartmentalization of scholarship. Thus the study of Roman debasements emphasizes fiscal deficits, whereas medievalists are often more prepared to consider monetary factors as contributing to debasements. To some extent these different approaches are a reflection of discrepancies in the amount of documentary evidence available for the respective periods, but the divide also underlines fundamentally different approaches to the function of coinage: Romanists have preferred to see coins as a medium for state payments; whereas medievalists have often emphasized exchange as an important function of currency. The volume is inter-disciplinary in scope. Apart from bringing together monetary historians of different periods, it also contains contributions from archaeometallurgists who have experience with the chemical and physical composition of coins and technical aspects of production of base alloys