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Cities--coins--commerce : essays presented to Ian Blanchard on the occasion of his 70th birthday / edited by Philipp Robinson Rössner ; contributors Richard Britnell [and nine others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit ; Number 31.
- Studien zur Gewerbe- und Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit ; Number 31
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (226 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stuttgart, Germany : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012.
- Summary:
- This e-book is a collection of essays written by pre-eminent scholars across the globe on key topics and problems in medieval and early modern economic history of Britain and central Europe. The ebook is dedicated to Ian Blanchard, emeritus professor of medieval economic history at the University of Edinburgh (United Kingdom).
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; Ian Blanchard - A Very Personal Appreciation; The Descent into a Dark Age: Byzantine Europe, c.400-800 A.D.; Royal Initiative and Scottish Burghs, 1100-1400; Neighbourhoods, Suburbs and Ethnic Quarters in the HungarianTowns, Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries; The Study of Medieval Foreign Trade of Hungary: A Historiographical Overview; Credit and its Record in the Later Medieval English Countryside; Bad Money, Evil Coins? Coin Debasement and Devaluation as Instruments of Monetary Policy on the Eve of the 'Price Revolution'
- Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low CountriesThe Höchstetter Bankruptcy of 1529 and its Relationship to the European Quicksilver Market; Technique or Demand? The Revival of the English Copper Industry, ca. 1680-1730; Serendipity and a Statue: Dundee, Robert Burns and 'a monument worthy of Scotland'; Japan's Integration into the International Cashless Payment System. A Case Study; List of Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 3-515-10515-8
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