1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990003483830203316

Titolo

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Memorie della Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Sezione I: matematica, meccanica, astronomia, geodesia e geofisica / Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei

ISSN

0365-0286

Descrizione fisica

v. : ill. ; 24 cm

Disciplina

505

Soggetti

Periodici scientifici

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Comincia nel 1946

Descrizione basata su Vol.19, n.1(1987);



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787105903321

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.