IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 1131: Making the World Go Round: Coinage and Money in Britain 973-1520 - A Lunchtime Lecture
Wednesday 13 July 2011, 13.15-14.00
| Sponsor: | SMC @ IMC: Studies in Medieval Coinage at Leeds International Medieval Congress |
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| Organiser: | Tony Abramson, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds / Department of Archaeology, University of York |
| Introduction: | Barrie J. Cook, Department of Coins & Medals, British Museum, London |
| Speaker: | Nick Mayhew, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford |
| Abstract | This lunchtime lecture will review developments in the subject since the 1990s. The first part of the lecture - Money and Society - will address the role of money in urbanisation, and the associated process of monetisation, and the use of credit. The second part of the lecture - Money and the Economy - will review recent work on money supply, [composition and aggregates], prices, and Gross Domestic Product. The final section compares the currencies of England and Scotland, and the relative merits and demerits of strong and weak currencies. |