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02988aam a22003974i 4500 001 F61A98E056B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 230210t20232023njua b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0691177406 020 $a 9780691177403 035 $a (OCoLC)1371248160 040 $a ERASA $b eng $c ERASA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d IaU $d SILO 050 4 $a D900 $b N35 2023 082 04 $a 940.1 100 1 $a Naismith, Rory, $e author. 245 10 $a Making money in the early Middle Ages / $c Rory Naismith. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xxi, 516 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a 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. 648 7 $a To 1500 $2 fast 650 0 $a Coinage $z Europe $x History $y To 1500. 650 0 $a Middle Ages. 650 7 $a Coinage. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00866632 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 650 7 $a Middle Ages. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01020301 650 7 $a Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919811 651 0 $a Europe $x History $y To 1500. 651 0 $a Europe $x Economic conditions $y To 1492. 651 0 $a Europe $x Social conditions $y To 1492. 651 7 $a Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245064 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117033126.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F61A98E056B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search