Making Money in the Early Middle Ages
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Princeton University Press
2023
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Note on Values
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- The Dark Age of Currency?
- The Dark Age of Money?
- The Meanings of Money
- Situating Early Medieval Money
- Investigating Early Medieval Money
- Sources and Approaches
- Part I
- Chapter 2. Bullion, Mining, and Minting
- Tracing the Origins of Gold and Silver
- Bullion, Profits, and Power
- Circulation of Bullion: Dynamics
- Imports of Bullion: Three Case Studies
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Why Make Money?
- How to Make Coined Money
- How Large Was the Early Medieval Currency?
- Why Were Early Medieval Coins Made?
- Fiscal Minting
- Impermeable Borders
- Renovatio Monetae
- Private Demand
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Using Coined Money
- Money and Gift-Giving
- Making a Statement: Money, Status, and Ritual
- Giving God, King, and Lord Their Due
- Monetary Obligations
- Credit
- Fines and Compensation
- Getting Whatever You Want: Money and Commerce
- Markets and Prices
- Elites and Coined Money
- Peasants and Coined Money
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Money, Metal, and Commodities
- Money and Means of Exchange
- Coin and Bullion: Categories or Continuum?
- The Social Dynamics of Mixed Moneys
- Case Study 1: Northern Spain
- Case Study 2: The Viking World
- Case Study 3: Tang and Song China
- Conclusion
- Part II
- Chapter 6. The Roman Legacy
- Later Roman Coinage: An Age of Gold
- "Money, the Cause and Source of Power and Problems"
- Currencies of Inequality
- "Caesar Seeks His Image on Your Gold": Gold and the State
- State and Private Demands in Dialogue
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Continuity and Change in the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
- Getting By in a Time of Scarcity: Low-Value Coinage
- Gold, Taxes, and Barbarian Settlement in the West in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries
- Post-Roman Italy
- New Gold 1: Merovingian Gaul
- New Gold 2: Visigothic Iberia
- New Gold 3: Early Anglo-Saxon England
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. The Rise of the Denarius c. 660-900
- From Gold to Silver
- Questions of Origins
- The Silver Rush c. 660-750 1: England
- The Silver Rush c. 660-750 2: Frisia and Francia
- Money and Power in the Carolingian Age
- Agency in Carolingian Coin Circulation
- Regional Distinctions in Coin Circulation
- Minting and Royal Authority
- Minting and Local Elites
- Southern England c. 750-900: A Parallel World?
- The Kingdom of Northumbria
- Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Money and Power in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
- At the Dawn of the Commercial Revolution?
- A Monetising Economy
- Money, Morality, and the Routinisation of Coin
- Money, Markets, and Lands: Mechanisms of Monetisation
- The Spread of the Penny
- New and Old Mints c. 850-1100
- Italy
- West Francia
- East Francia/Germany
- England
- Conclusion
- Chapter 10. Conclusion: A Sketch of Early Medieval Money
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography
- Index