Money in the Medieval English Economy 973-1489

by Jim Bolton

Book Overview

The importance of money as one of the key variables in the workings of the medieval economy is often overlooked. This new study first provides the reader with a background to the problems of modelling the medieval economy and the value of the Fisher equation of exchange to monetary historians, to the pratical processes of strking coins from silver and gold acquired through foreign trade and to the importance of royal control over mints and exchanges...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719050405
• ISBN13: 9780719050404
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"