{"product_id":"making-money-in-sixteenth-century-france-currency-culture-and-the-state-hardback-9780801451591","title":"Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France; Currency, Culture, and the State (Hardback) 9780801451591","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMaking Money in Sixteenth-Century France\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCurrency, Culture, and the State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJotham Parsons (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801451591\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 November 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages, 3 charts - 3 Charts\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 2.9 cm, 0.907 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Money in Sixteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e will be an important and invaluable reference for anyone working in early modern economic history. It is ambitious in its analysis, engagingly written, and wide ranging. The great strength of the book, in addition to its history of economic thought, is Parsons' astute weaving of different strands of sociological literature and unstudied archival material. In that account, his anlaysis achieves the right balance between breadth and depth. Coinage is a highly technical and ill-understood subject, and Parsons deserves much credit for his ability to make the intricacies of coinage in the sixteenth century understandable and interesting for a broad audience.\u003c\/p\u003e - Veronica Aoki Santarosa (EH.Net) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaking Money\u003c\/i\u003e ventures boldly into multiple domains of sixteenth-century life, offering insightful comments on cosmetics, alchemy, Scholastic philosophy, social mobility, monarchical propaganda, the Pleiade poets, William Cecil, John Locke, Pierre Corneille, New Comedy, and much else. In its exuberant intellectual abundance, \u003ci\u003eMaking Money\u003c\/i\u003e occasionally seems to be channeling the spirit of the sixteenth century itself.\u003c\/p\u003e - Jonathan Dewald (Renaissance Quarterly)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoinage and currency—abstract and socially created units of value and power—were basic to early modern society.\u003c\/b\u003e By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In \u003ci\u003eMaking Money in Sixteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e, Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal \u003ci\u003eCour des Monnaies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCour des Monnaies\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eMonnaies\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction1. The \u003ci\u003eCour des Monnaies\u003c\/i\u003e2. The Logic of Economic Regulation3. The Inflationary Crisis and the Reforms of 15774. Money and Sovereignty5. Crimes against the Currency6. The Monetary Imaginary of Renaissance FranceConclusion: The Court and the Queen\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541698081048,"sku":"9780801451591","price":46.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/making-money-in-sixteenth-century-france-currency-culture-and-the-state-hardback-9780801451591","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}