Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of
medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but …

More than a century ago, in his stimulating re ections on the history of numismatic research,
Ernest Babelon highlighted the seminal contribution of the 14th-century Italian humanist …

The colonial Andes–and the emblematic silver mines of Potosí–have long been central
within global historical narratives about colonial extractive economies and transoceanic …

In recent decades, archaeological discourse has expanded beyond earlier paradigms
concerned primarily with chronology, typology, and function. Archaeologies of gender, the …

Relatively few general works in English cover money in the period between the 8th and 12th
centuries. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the further east and south within Europe one goes, the …

Examining the Grágás and sagas of Medieval Iceland demonstrates that the laws which
governed Medieval Iceland were both strict and lawbreakers were punished ruthlessly when …