Record Nr.

UNINA9910810316703321

Autore

Parsons Jotham

Titolo

Making money in sixteenth-century France : currency, culture, and the state / / Jotham Parsons

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014
©2014

ISBN

0-8014-5497-2

0-8014-5498-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

332.4/94409031

Soggetti

Money - France - History - 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Cour des Monnaies -- 2. The Logic of Economic Regulation -- 3. The Inflationary Crisis and the Reforms of 1577 -- 4. Money and Sovereignty -- 5. Crimes against the Currency -- 6. The Monetary Imaginary of Renaissance France -- Conclusion: The Court and the Queen -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Coinage and currency-abstract and socially created units of value and power-were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies centralized monetary administration, expanding its role in the emerging modern state during the sixteenth century and assuming new powers as an often controversial repository of theoretical and administrative expertise. The Cour des Monnaies, Parsons shows, played an important role in developing the contemporary understanding of money, as a source of both danger and opportunity at the center of economic and political life. More practically, the Monnaies led generally successful responses to the endemic inflation of the era and the monetary chaos of a period of civil war. Its work investigating and prosecuting counterfeiters shone light into a picaresque world of those who used the abstract and

artificial nature of money for their own ends. Parsons's broad, multidimensional portrait of money in early modern France also encompasses the literature of the age, in which money's arbitrary and dangerous power was a major theme.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009783270403321

Titolo

The Oxyrhynchus papyri

Pubbl/distr/stampa


London, : Egypt exploration fund, : [poi] Egypt exploration society, 1898-

Descrizione fisica

v. : ill. ; 26 cm

Collana

Graeco-Roman memories

Disciplina

481.7

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

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