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Jacques Le Goff Sets Out In This Book To Explain The Role Of Money, Or Rather Of The Various Types Of Money, In The Economy, Life And Mentalities Of The Middle Ages. He Seeks Also To Explain How, In A Society Dominated By Religion, The Church Viewed Money, And How It Taught Christians What Attitudes They Should Adopt Towards It And Towards The Uses To Which It Could Be Put. He Shows That, Although Money Played An Important Role In The Rise Of Towns And Trade And In State Formation, There Was No Capitalism But Only A Pre-capitalism In The Middle Ages, Even By Their End, In The Absence Of A Truly Global Market. This Is Why Economic Development Remained Slow And Limited, In Spite Of Some Remarkable Success Stories. It Was A Period In Which It Was As Important To Give Money As It Was To Earn It. True Wealth Was Not Yet The Wealth Of This World, Even Though Money Played An Increasingly Large Role In Reality And In Mentalities. -- Back Cover. The Heritage Of The Roman Empire And Christianization -- From Charlemagne To Feudalism -- The Rise Of Coin And Money At The Turn Of The Twelfth And Thirteenth Centuries -- The Glorious Thirteenth Century Of Money -- Trade, Money And Coin In The Comm

Author

Jacques Le Goff

Publisher

Polity Press : [distributor] John Wiley and Sons Ltd : [distributor] John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd : [distributor] John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd : [distributor] PSD Promotions (Pty) Ltd : [distributor] John Wiley & Sons

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745652986