Zaoral Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-46023-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 281 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance

The wealth of the Central European archives, particularly in urban records, has not been fully realised by Western European historians. However, the records are not always straightforward to use and many studies tackle the methodological problems inherent in gathering and analysing medieval sources. This book presents an original review of past and present research of national historiographies on medieval financial history from Central Europe. Covering material ranging from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, it explores the eastern regions of the Holy Roman Empire, including Bohemia, Silesia, Austria and Germany, and extending to Poland and Hungary. The authors firstly discuss the monetary policy of the Holy Roman emperors during the Middle Ages, before moving on to wider aspects of state finance, including credit mechanisms used by rulers. The book then investigates civic records and what they reveal about urban life and trade. It lastly investigates the financial activitiesof the church, from papacy to the cathedral chapters in Prague. Using numismatic and documentary evidence, Money and Finance in Central Europe during the Later Middle Ages provides an invaluable point of comparison with the financial conditions in Western Europe during the Middle Ages.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaoral, Roman

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2;Half-Title;2
3;Title;4
4;Copyright;5
5;Dedication;6
6;Contents;8
7;List of Figures;10
8;List of Tables;11
9;Preface;12
10;Acknowledgements;16
11;Notes on Contributors;17
12;Introduction: Medieval Finance in Central European Historiography;20
13;Part I Money and Minting;42
13.1;1 A New Perspective on the Imperial Coinage;43
13.2;2 The Reception of Imperial Monetary Reforms in 16th-century Northern Germany;50
13.3;3 The Kremnica Town Book of Accounts: The Economy of a Mining and Mint Town in the Kingdom of Hungary;60
14;Part II Medieval Court Funding;75
14.1;4 Financiers to the Blind King: Funding the Court of John the Blind (1310–1346);76
14.2;5 The Financial Dimension of the Pledge Policy of King Sigismund of Luxembourg in Bohemia (1419–1437);93
14.3;6 The Pledge Policy of King Sigismund of Luxembourg in Hungary (1387–1437);104
14.4;7 The Economic Background to and the Financial Politics of Queen Barbara of Cilli in Hungary (1406–1438);127
14.5;8 The Courtly Accounts of Prince Sigismund Jagiello (Late 15th to Early 16th Centuries) and Their Historical Context;146
15;Part III Trade and Towns;169
15.1;9 Accounting Records of the Town Offices in Bohemia and Moravia: Methodology and Application;170
15.2;10 Remnants and Traces: In Search of Wroc?aw’s Accounting Books (Late 14th to Early 16th Centuries);184
15.3;11 Financial Obligations of the City of Gda?sk to King Casimir IV Jagiellon and His Successors in the Light of the 1468–1516 Ledger Book;196
15.4;12 Old Interpretations and New Approaches: The 1457–1458 Thirtieth Customs Register of Bratislava;207
16;Part IV Church and Money;217
16.1;13 Financing a Legation: Papal Legates and Money in the Later Middle Ages;218
16.2;14 St Vitus Building Accounts (1372–1378): The Economic Aspects of Building the Cathedral;235
16.3;15 ‘De mandato dominorum divisorum ... ’ : Finances in the Life of Prague’s Metropolitan Chapter;260
17;Index;277

Über Autor(innen)

Roman Zaoral is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Czech Republic, where he also obtained an MA in History and PhD in Medieval History. His research interests centre on the economic, financial and numismatic history of central Europe during the Middle Ages.