Money in the Middle Ages

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Program in Medieval Studies, Princeton Univ.

Organizer Name

Sara S. Poor

Organizer Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Presider Name

Alan M. Stahl

Presider Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 1

Modern Money in a Pre-modern Economy: Fiduciary Coinage in Early Byzantium

Presenter 1 Name

Andrei Gândilâ

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville

Paper Title 2

East Roman Imperial Spending and the Eleventh-Century Crisis

Presenter 2 Name

Lee Mordechai

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 3

War, Politics, and the Flow of Cash on the German-Czech-Polish Frontier

Presenter 3 Name

Lisa Wolverton

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of Oregon

Start Date

16-5-2015 1:30 PM

Session Location

Schneider 1335

Description

Money in the Middle Ages

The Princeton Program in Medieval Studies is pleased to announce its theme for our Kalamazoo sponsored session for 2015. Papers may address any aspect of the topic of “money” in the Middle Ages, including the economic history of particular communities; the systems of value, debt, and exchange depicted in literary texts, as well as treatises on royal monetary policy; the philosophy of money; the art of money, as exampled in the vices with their money purses; religion, money, and usury; numismatics and the material culture of exchanging coins or tokens and producing tallies; the economy of patronage in the arts (literature, music, art, architecture) and the sciences.

Sara S. Poor