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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN-10
0801451590
ISBN-13
9780801451591
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201568912
Product Key Features
Book Title
Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France : Currency, Culture, and the State
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Europe / France, Money & Monetary Policy
Publication Year
2014
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
32.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-021596
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Making Money 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, Making Money occasionally seems to be channeling the spirit of the sixteenth century itself., "Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France is an erudite, ambitious, multidimensional analysis of the many little-understood complexities and consequences of 'money' that provides compelling insights into a central intersection of early modern politics, economics, society, and culture."--Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin, author of Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Early Modern France, Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France 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., Making Money 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, Making Money occasionally seems to be channeling the spirit of the sixteenth century itself., "Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France is an erudite, ambitious, multidimensional analysis of the many little-understood complexities and consequences of 'money' that provides compelling insights into a central intersection of early modern politics, economics, society, and culture."-Julie Hardwick, University of Texas at Austin, author of Family Business: Litigation and the Political Economies of Daily Life in Early Modern France, "In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons brings his great erudition to bear with a commendable lightness of touch. He draws on archival sources that have not been examined before, while keeping a broad awareness of the issues involved, and opens up his discussion of sixteenth-century French monetary policy to the wider cultural and social issues of the period."-Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield, author of Governing Passions: Peace and Reform in The French Kingdom, 1576-1585, In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France , Jotham Parsons brings his great erudition to bear with a commendable lightness of touch. He draws on archival sources that have not been examined before, while keeping a broad awareness of the issues involved, and opens up his discussion of sixteenth-century French monetary policy to the wider cultural and social issues of the period., "Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France 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 differentstrands 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."--Veronica Aoki Santarosa, EH.Net (September 2015), "Making Money 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, Making Money occasionally seems to be channeling the spirit of the sixteenth century itself."-Jonathan Dewald,Renaissance Quarterly(vol. 68, no. 4), "Making Money 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, Making Money occasionally seems to be channeling the spirit of the sixteenth century itself."--Jonathan Dewald,Renaissance Quarterly(vol. 68, no. 4), "In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France, Jotham Parsons brings his great erudition to bear with a commendable lightness of touch. He draws on archival sources that have not been examined before, while keeping a broad awareness of the issues involved, and opens up his discussion of sixteenth-century French monetary policy to the wider cultural and social issues of the period."--Mark Greengrass, University of Sheffield, author of Governing Passions: Peace and Reform in The French Kingdom, 1576-1585, "Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France 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 differentstrands 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."-Veronica Aoki Santarosa, EH.Net (September 2015), Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France 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.
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Dewey Decimal
332.4/94409031
Table Of Content
Introduction1. The Cour des Monnaies 2. 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 Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Coinage and currency?abstract and socially created units of value and power?were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France , Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies 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. The Cour des Monnaies , 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 Monnaies 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., Coinage and currency--abstract and socially created units of value and power--were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France , Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies 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.The Cour des Monnaies, 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 Monnaies 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., Coinage and currency--abstract and socially created units of value and power--were basic to early modern society. By controlling money, the people sought to understand and control their complex, expanding, and interdependent world. In Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France , Jotham Parsons investigates the creation and circulation of currency in France. The royal Cour des Monnaies 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. The Cour des Monnaies , 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 Monnaies 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.
LC Classification Number
HG976.P37 2015
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