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Christine Desan’s Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism provides an authoritative answer to a fundamental question about medieval English money that has puzzled a few scholars, but that has been largely ignored by most: were medieval payments normally weighed or counted? The same question can be expressed differently as: were payments made by weight or by tale at face value; or again, was the value of money determined by its intrinsic content or by royal decree? But why might this curious distinction between counting payments and weighing them matter?
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Nick Mayhew, Government, Money, and the Law, Law and History Review, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0738248021000250. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 7 June 2021.
First posted 2021-06-10 12:00:54
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