[PDF]Making Money - Contents

CHAPTER 1


PART I


CHAPTER 2


CHAPTER 3


CONTENTS


Illustrations + xiii
Preface and Acknowledgements + xvii


Note on Values + xxi


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


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


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


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CHAPTER 4


CHAPTER 5


PART II


CHAPTER 6


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Renovatio Monetae
Private Demand


Conclusion


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


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


The Roman Legacy
Later Roman Coinage: An Age of Gold


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“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


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


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


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CHAPTER 10


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Southern England c. 750-900: A Parallel World?
The Kingdom of Northumbria

Conclusion

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
Conclusion: A Sketch of Early Medieval Money
Abbreviations + 401


Bibliography - 405
Index + 499


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