Medieval statistics : accounting, record-keeping and financial management, 1066-1525 / Mark Casson, John S. Lee, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Casson, Mark, 1945- editor.

Lee, John S., editor.

Series:

Palgrave studies in the history of finance

Palgrave studies in the history of finance, 2662-5164

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Economic conditions--To 1492.

Europe.

Finance--History.

Finance.

Finance--Statistical methods.

Physical Description:

xvi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]

Summary:

" Medieval statistics provide a unique window on the past. This book is the first to systematically examine the sources of medieval statistics. It will be useful as a handbook for researchers in financial and cultural history, as a history of financial record-keeping, and as a review of recent research into medieval finance and accounting based on statistical sources. Medieval documents produced by royal governments, monastic and ecclesiastical institutions, urban boroughs and legal cases for debt recovery provide a mine of useful information on economic life and financial affairs. They show that medieval administration was far more numerate, and far more sophisticated than is usually recognized. This book provides a comprehensive review of the key sources, written by leading experts in the field. The strengths and weaknesses of each source are reviewed, using original documents for illustration, and discussing examples from the recent literature. England is used as a case study because of the range of surviving data and the level of detail that it can provide. This edited volume will be a valuable tool for those working in financial, cultural, and political history, as it seeks to analyse the various ways in which medieval life was documented numerically and highlight the ways in which these statistics are being used by historians to transform our understanding of the medieval past." -- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3031697294

9783031697296

OCLC:

1445896184