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Making Money in the Early Middle Ages by Rory Naismith (2023, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691177406
ISBN-13
9780691177403
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2329411003
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
544 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Making Money in the Early Middle Ages
Publication Year
2023
Subject
Economic History, Social History, Europe / Medieval
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
32.9 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2023-932507
Reviews
Clearly written and boasts an extensive bibliography. Naismith's interpretations modify or supplant many standard views, indicating points that still require additional investigation. This is necessary reading for specialists., " Making Money in the Early Middle Ages provides a broad portrait of daily life through the lens of currency in the ninth century that makes the book a worthwhile read." ---Ryne Clos, Spectrum Culture, [C]learly written and boasts an extensive bibliography. Naismith's interpretations modify or supplant many standard views, indicating points that still require additional investigation. This is necessary reading for specialists., Piecing together case studies from the Mediterranean and northern Europe, as well as looking at mining, metal production and alternative forms of currency, this is a rich account of early English numismatic history., "A joy to read, in no small part because of Naismith's vivid prose. . . .If you want to know about people's little quirks and preoccupations, their appetite for acquisition and the enduring human obsession with wealth, then Making Money in the Early Middle Ages will suit you well." ---Mary Hitchman, Times Literary Supplement, This book is dense but clearly written and boasts an extensive bibliography. Naismith's interpretations modify or supplant many standard views, indicating points that still require additional investigation. This is necessary reading for specialists.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
332.4940902
Synopsis
An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe. Between the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the majority of the population to make use of. And yet, as Rory Naismith shows in this illuminating study, coined money was made and used throughout early medieval Europe. It was, he argues, a powerful tool for articulating people's place in economic and social structures and an important gauge for levels of economic complexity. Working from the premise that using coined money carried special significance when there was less of it around, Naismith uses detailed case studies from the Mediterranean and northern Europe to propose a new reading of early medieval money as a point of contact between economic, social, and institutional history. Naismith examines structural issues, including the mining and circulation of metal and the use of bullion and other commodities as money, and then offers a chronological account of monetary development, discussing the post-Roman period of gold coinage, the rise of the silver penny in the seventh century and the reconfiguration of elite power in relation to coinage in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In the process, he counters the conventional view of early medieval currency as the domain only of elite gift-givers and intrepid long-distance traders. Even when there were few coins in circulation, Naismith argues, the ways they were used -- to give gifts, to pay rents, to spend at markets -- have much to tell us., An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe Between the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the majority of the population to make use of. And yet, as Rory Naismith shows in this illuminating study, coined money was made and used throughout early medieval Europe. It was, he argues, a powerful tool for articulating people's place in economic and social structures and an important gauge for levels of economic complexity. Working from the premise that using coined money carried special significance when there was less of it around, Naismith uses detailed case studies from the Mediterranean and northern Europe to propose a new reading of early medieval money as a point of contact between economic, social, and institutional history. Naismith examines structural issues, including the mining and circulation of metal and the use of bullion and other commodities as money, and then offers a chronological account of monetary development, discussing the post-Roman period of gold coinage, the rise of the silver penny in the seventh century and the reconfiguration of elite power in relation to coinage in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In the process, he counters the conventional view of early medieval currency as the domain only of elite gift-givers and intrepid long-distance traders. Even when there were few coins in circulation, Naismith argues, the ways they were used--to give gifts, to pay rents, to spend at markets--have much to tell us.
LC Classification Number
HG243
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