Includes bibliographical references (p. [244]-257) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Rough economies: the politics and poetics of coinage -- Dimensions of state formation -- More's Utopia and the logic of debasement: reason, custom and natural laws of coinage -- The great debasement and its aftermath -- Coining crimes and moral regulation in Measure for measure -- "Mysteries of state": the political theology of money in Macbeth -- Foreign coins and domestic exclusion in Thomas Dekker's The shoemaker's holiday -- Conclusion. The changing matter of money.
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