Mints and Money in Medieval England
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Mints and Money in Medieval England

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Mints and Money in Medieval England

About this book

Money could be as essential to everyday life in medieval England as it is today, but who made the coinage, how was it used and why is it important? This definitive study charts the development of coin production from the small workshops of Anglo-Saxon and Norman England to the centralised factory mints of the late Middle Ages, the largest being in the Tower of London. Martin Allen investigates the working lives of the people employed in the mints in unprecedented detail and places the mints in the context of medieval England's commerce and government, showing the king's vital interest in the production of coinage, the maintenance of its quality and his mint revenue. This unique source of reference also offers the first full history of the official exchanges in the City of London regulating foreign exchange and an in-depth analysis of the changing size and composition of medieval England's coinage.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. MINTS AND MONEY IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
  3. TITLE
  4. COPYRIGHT
  5. DEDICATION
  6. CONTENTS
  7. FIGURES
  8. MAPS
  9. TABLES
  10. PREFACE
  11. ABBREVIATIONS
  12. 1: MONEYERS AND MINTS, C.973–1158
  13. 2: THE CENTRALISATION OF MINTING, 1158–1278
  14. 3: MINTS AND THEIR MEN, 1279–1544
  15. 4: MINT WORKSHOP PRACTICE AND EQUIPMENT
  16. 5: STANDARDS OF WEIGHT AND FINENESS
  17. 6: PROFITS
  18. 7: THE EXCHANGES IN THE CITY OF LONDON
  19. 8: THE SOURCES OF BULLION FOR THE ENGLISH COINAGE
  20. 9: MINT OUTPUT
  21. 10: THE CHANGING SIZE OF THE CURRENCY
  22. 11: THE CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION
  23. CONCLUSION
  24. APPENDIX A
  25. APPENDIX B
  26. APPENDIX C
  27. APPENDIX D
  28. APPENDIX E
  29. APPENDIX F
  30. REFERENCES
  31. INDEX