Pamela Nightingale

Trade, Money, and Power in Medieval England (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The sixteen articles in this collection analyse the wealth created by overseas trade and the development of the English economy, during the late Anglo-Saxon period up to the advent of the Tudors. The papers include general surveys of the importance of coinage. They also illustrate how the English crown used its control and exploitation of the coina

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000949902
• Artikelnr.: 68030438

Autorenporträt

Pamela Nightingale is a member of the History Faculty at the University of Oxford, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Communication through capital and trade: money and
the rise of a market economy in medieval Europe; The ora, the mark, and the
mancus: weight-standards and the coinage in 11th-century England (parts 1 &
2); The evolution of weight standards and the creation of new monetary and
commercial links in Northern Europe from the 10th century to the 12th
century; Some London moneyers, and reflections on the organisation of
English Mints in the 11th and 12th centuries; The origin of the Court of
Husting and Danish influence on London's development into a capital city;
'The king's profit': trends in English Mint and monetary policy in the 11th
and 12th centuries; The London Pepperers' Guild and some 12th-century
English trading links with Spain; The lay subsidies and the distribution of
wealth in medieval England, 1275-1334; Norwich, London, and the regional
integration of Norfolk's economy in the first half of the 14th century; The
English parochial clergy as investors and creditors in the first half of
the 14th century; Knights and merchants: trade, politics, and the gentry in
late medieval England; The growth of London in the medieval English
economy; Capitalists, crafts, and constitutional change in late
14th-century London; Money and credit in the economy of late medieval
England; Monetary contraction and mercantile credit in later medieval
England; England and the European depression of the mid-15th century;
Index.