A Cultural History Of Money In The Renaissance 3

In a time before large banking systems, and with paper money just in its infancy, money during the Renaissance meant coinage (mainly gold and silver) and local credit systems. These monetary forms had a significant influence on the ways in which money was understood throughout the period, and shaped discussions on such topics as the meaning of monetary value, the economic, political, religious, and aesthetic uses of coinage, the moral implications of usury and credit systems, and the importance of reputation, both at the state and individual levels. Crucial to the transformation of ideas about money in the period was the growing awareness that the individuals, up to and including the monarch, were powerless to overcome the market forces that determined value and directed the movement of goods and money. Drawing upon a wealth of visual and textual sources, A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of technologies, ideas, ritual and religion, the everyday, art and representation, interpretation, and the issues of the age. A Cultural History of Money presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes charts how money has made the world go around over four millennia and how its multiple materialities and meanings have shaped, and been shaped by, the broader social and cultural world around it. 1. A Cultural History of Money in Antiquity (2500 BCE-500 CE) 2. A Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age (500-1400) 3. A Cultural History of Money in the Renaissance (1400-1680) 4. A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Enlightenment (1680-1820) 5. A Cultural History of Money in the Age of Empire (1820-1920) 6. A Cultural History of Money in the Modern Age (1920-present) Each volume discusses the same themes in its chapters: 1. Money and its Technologies 2. Money and its Ideas 3. Money and Religion 4. Money and the Everyday 5. Money and Art (or Visual Representations) 6. Money and its Interpretation (or Verbal Representations) 7. Money and the Issues of the Age This structure offers readers a broad overview of a period within each volume or the opportunity to follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter across volumes. The full six-volume set, which is generously illustrated, combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on money in history "Money is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a standard, a store." But money is always a medium of communication, too - whether about price or about political conviction and authority, fealty, desire, or disdain. In a work that spans 4,500 years, 54 writers explore how money has "made the world go round" and capture money's complexities in both substance and form. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, to make this resource easier to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives readers the choice of reading about a specific period, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six books. The six volumes cover Antiquity (2500 BCE-500 CE), the Medieval age (500-1400), the Renaissance era (1400-1680), the Age of Enlightenment (1680-1820), the age of empire (1820-1920), and the "modern age" (1920-twenty-first century). Themes include money and its technologies, money and its ideas, money and religion, money and the everyday, money and art, money and its interpretation, and money and the issues of the era Contents List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction • Stephen Deng 1 Money and its Technologies: Mining, Metallurgy, Minting, and Non-Metallic Monetary Forms • Arturo Giráldéz 2 Money and its Ideas: Justice, Sovereignty, and the Idea of Money as Commodity • Bradley D. Ryner 3 Money, Ritual, and Religion: God’s Stamp and the Problem of Usury • Stephen Deng 4 Money and the Everyday: Reputation, History, and Symbolism on the Eastern African Coast • Stephanie Wynne-Jones 5 Money, Art, and Representation: Text, Image, and Message • Barrie Cook 6 Money and its Interpretation: Two Early Modern Transactions • David J. Baker 7 Money and the Issues of the Age: Coinage, Sovereignty, and the Liquidity of Imagination • Brian Sheerin Notes Bibliography Index Este libro es el sexto de seis volúmenes que tratan sobre la complejidad del dinero: su tecnología, las ideas que transmite, su conexión con los rituales y la religión, el arte y la representación, así como su presencia en la vida cotidiana. Este sexto volumen se extiende de 1920 hasta la actualidad