1st Edition
Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450
Introduction
DARIUSZ ADAMCZYK AND BEATA MOŻEJKO 1
1 Money, gift or instrument of power? Hybrid (political) economies in the post-Viking age around the Baltic Sea 9
DARIUSZ ADAMCZYK
2 Coin circulation in Poland under the rule of Bolesław III Wrymouth (1102–1138) 21
GRZEGORZ ŚNIEŻKO
3 Two stages of monetisation: Periodic recoinages and coin debasement in the Czech lands 47
ROMAN ZAORAL
4 The trade between Slesvig/Lübeck and Novgorod c. 1050 until c. 1450 63
CARSTEN JAHNKE
5 Limited use of money in late-medieval commerce: Economic considerations on the viability of Hanseatic “reciprocal trade” 77
ULF CHRISTIAN EWERT
6 Monetisation and economic inequality among peasants in medieval Poland 98
PIOTR GUZOWSKI
7 Toruń’s burghers and silver/gold in the first half of the fifteenth century 123
KRZYSZTOF KOPIŃSKI
8 The use of gold and silver in the praxis of a merchant in late medieval Gdańsk 142
ANNA PAULINA ORŁOWSKA
9 City and money during a war: Gdańsk debt during the Thirteen Years’ War 159
MARCIN GRULKOWSKI
Biography
Dariusz Adamczyk is Associate Professor at the University of Hannover, Germany.
Beata Możejko is Professor at the Institute of History, University of Gdansk, Poland.
