Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy c.300–1450

This is a major study of the Byzantine coinage set in the wider context of finance, administration and economy.

Michael F. Hendy (Author)

9780521088527, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 October 2008

828 pages
24.6 x 18.9 x 4.2 cm, 1.45 kg

This book represents an attempt to depict the late Roman and Byzantine monetary economy in its fullest possible social, economic and administrative context, with the aim of establishing the basic dynamics behind the production of the coinage, the major mechanisms affecting its distribution, and the general characteristics of its behaviour once in circulation. The book consists of four main sections, on economy and society, on finance, and on the circulation and production of coinage, and has made an unrivalled contribution in the field of late classical, Byzantine and medieval economic history. The text is fully supported by the extensive quotation of translated sources, and by maps, tables and plates.

List of plates
List of maps
List of tables
Abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Economy and Society: 1. The land
2. The basic geography of settlement and society
Part II. Finance: 3. The budget
4. The limiting factors
Part III. Coinage (Circulation): 5. Supply
6. Supervision
Part IV: Coinage (Production): 7. Administrative basis
8. History
Preliminary observations, future directions
Bibliographies
Key to plates
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC], European history [HBJD]