Making Money In Sixteenth Century France

Author : Jotham Parsons
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801454981

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Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France by Jotham Parsons Pdf

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.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802036899

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Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-century France by Henry Heller Pdf

He also discusses the important role of anti-Italian xenophobia in the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the Estates-General of Blois in 1576-7, the Catholic League revolt, and the triumph of Henri IV.".

Author : Richard Avramenko,Ethan Alexander-Davey
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498553278

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Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times by Richard Avramenko,Ethan Alexander-Davey Pdf

Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization, quantity, utility and mobility. Is there any place for aristocratic values and virtues in the modern democratic social and political order? This volume consists of essays by political theorists, historians, and literary theorists that explore this question in the works of aristocratic thinkers, both ancient and modern. The volume includes analyses of aristocratic virtues, interpretations of aristocratic assemblies and constitutions, both historic and contemporary, as well as critiques of liberal virtues and institutions. Essays on Tacitus, Hobbes, Burke, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, as well as some lesser known figures, such as Henri de Boulainvilliers, John Randolph of Roanoke, Louis de Bonald, Konstantin Leontiev, Jose Ortega y Gasset, Richard Weaver, and the Eighth Duke of Northumberland, explore ways of preserving and adapting the salutary aspects of the aristocratic ethos to the needs of modern liberal societies.

Author : Janine Garrisson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1995-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349240203

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A History of Sixteenth Century France, 1483-1598 by Janine Garrisson Pdf

A masterful new survey of sixteenth-century France which examines the vicissitudes of the French monarchy during the Italian Wars and the Wars of Religion. It explores how the advances made under a succession of strong kings from Charles VIII to Henri II created tensions in traditional society which combined with economic problems and emerging religious divisions to bring the kingdom close to disintegration under a series of weak kings from Francois II to Henri III. The political crisis culminated in France's first succession conflict for centuries, but was resolved through Henri IV's timely reconnection of dynastic legitimism with religious orthodoxy.

Author : Joseph J. Tinguely
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031541360

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The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Money by Joseph J. Tinguely Pdf

Author : Stefan Eich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691235431

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The Currency of Politics by Stefan Eich Pdf

Money in the history of political thought, from ancient Greece to the Great Inflation of the 1970s In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, critical attention has shifted from the economy to the most fundamental feature of all market economies—money. Yet despite the centrality of political struggles over money, it remains difficult to articulate its democratic possibilities and limits. The Currency of Politics takes readers from ancient Greece to today to provide an intellectual history of money, drawing on the insights of key political philosophers to show how money is not just a medium of exchange but also a central institution of political rule. Money appears to be beyond the reach of democratic politics, but this appearance—like so much about money—is deceptive. Even when the politics of money is impossible to ignore, its proper democratic role can be difficult to discern. Stefan Eich examines six crucial episodes of monetary crisis, recovering the neglected political theories of money in the thought of such figures as Aristotle, John Locke, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes. He shows how these layers of crisis have come to define the way we look at money, and argues that informed public debate about money requires a better appreciation of the diverse political struggles over its meaning. Recovering foundational ideas at the intersection of monetary rule and democratic politics, The Currency of Politics explains why only through greater awareness of the historical limits of monetary politics can we begin to articulate more democratic conceptions of money.

Author : C. Scott Dixon,Beat Kümin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000497373

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Interpreting Early Modern Europe by C. Scott Dixon,Beat Kümin Pdf

Interpreting Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive collection of essays on the historiography of the early modern period (circa 1450-1800). Concerned with the principles, priorities, theories, and narratives behind the writing of early modern history, the book places particular emphasis on developments in recent scholarship. Each chapter, written by a prominent historian caught up in the debates, is devoted to the varieties of interpretation relating to a specific theme or field considered integral to understanding the age, providing readers with a ‘behind-the-scenes’ look at how historians have worked, and still work, within these fields. At one level the emphasis is historiographical, with the essays engaged in a direct dialogue with the influential theories, methods, assumptions, and conclusions in each of the fields. At another level the contributions emphasise the historical dimensions of interpretation, providing readers with surveys of the component parts that make up the modern narratives. Supported by extensive bibliographies, primary materials, and appendices with extracts from key secondary debates, Interpreting Early Modern Europe provides a systematic exploration of how historians have shaped the study of the early modern past. It is essential reading for students of early modern history. For a comprehensive overview of the history of early modern Europe see the partnering volume The European World 3ed Edited by Beat Kumin - https://www.routledge.com/The-European-World-15001800-An-Introduction-to-Early-Modern-History/Kuminah2/p/book/9781138119154.

Author : Mack P. Holt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108471886

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The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France by Mack P. Holt Pdf

Explores how workers in the local wine industry helped shape local politics and turn back Protestantism in early modern Burgundy.

Author : William J. Kennedy
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501703805

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Petrarchism at Work by William J. Kennedy Pdf

The Italian scholar and poet Francesco Petrarch (1304–1374) is best remembered today for vibrant and impassioned love poetry that helped to establish Italian as a literary language. Petrarch inspired later Renaissance writers, who produced an extraordinary body of work regarded today as perhaps the high-water mark of poetic productivity in the European West. These "Petrarchan" poets were self-consciously aware of themselves as poets—as craftsmen, revisers, and professionals. As William J. Kennedy shows in Petrarchism at Work, this commitment to professionalism and the mastery of poetic craft is essential to understanding Petrarch’s legacy. Petrarchism at Work contributes to recent scholarship that explores relationships between poetics and economic history in early-modern European literature. Kennedy traces the development of a Renaissance aesthetics from one based upon Platonic intuition and visionary furor to one grounded in Aristotelian craftsmanship and technique. Their polarities harbor economic consequences, the first privileging the poet’s divinely endowed talent, rewarded by the autocratic largess of patrons, the other emphasizing the poet’s acquired skill and hard work. Petrarch was the first to exploit the tensions between these polarities, followed by his poetic successors. These include Gaspara Stampa in the emergent salon society of Venice, Michelangelo Buonarroti in the "gift" economy of Medici Florence and papal Rome, Pierre de Ronsard and the poets of his Pléiade brigade in the fluctuant Valois court, and William Shakespeare and his contemporaries in the commercial world of Elizabethan and early Stuart London. As Kennedy shows, the poetic practices of revision and redaction by Petrarch and his successors exemplify the transition from a premodern economy of patronage to an early modern economy dominated by unstable market forces.

Author : Philipp Robinson Rössner
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781529211221

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Managing the Wealth of Nations by Philipp Robinson Rössner Pdf

This pioneering work debunks the neoliberal origin myth of how capitalism came into the world.

Author : M-.T.Boyer- Xambeau,A. Azodi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315491035

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Private Money and Public Currencies: The Sixteenth Century Challenge by M-.T.Boyer- Xambeau,A. Azodi Pdf

First Published in 1994. Writing as a unified team, the authors, three French economists—they insist they are economists, not economic historians, though they are steeped in the monetary, financial, economic, social, and political history of Europe in the sixteenth century—have written a fascinating account of the development of means of payment at the end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the modern period. The account is limited for the most part to what they call “Latin Christianity”—primarily France, Italy, and Spain. It describes both the development of an integrated circuit of intra-European payments by means of bills of exchange negotiated at trade and payment fairs and the emergence of national systems of money of account and metallic coins at the hands of the monarchs of the emerging state system.

Author : Marja Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030338244

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National Reflections on the Netherlands Didactics of Mathematics by Marja Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen Pdf

This open access book, inspired by the ICME 13 Thematic Afternoon on “European Didactic Traditions”, consists of 17 chapters, in which educators from the Netherlands reflect on the teaching and learning of mathematics in their country and the role of the Dutch domain-specific instruction theory of Realistic Mathematics Education. Written by mathematics teachers, mathematics teacher educators, school advisors, and developers and researchers in the field of instructional material, textbooks, and examinations, the book offers a multitude of perspectives on important issues in Dutch mathematics education, both at primary and secondary school levels. Topics addressed include the theoretical underpinnings of the Dutch approach, the subject of mathematics in the Dutch educational system, teacher education and testing, the history of mathematics education and the use of history in teaching of mathematics, changes over time in subject matter domains and in the use of technology, and the process of innovation and how the Dutch and in particular one Dutch institute have worked on the reform.

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002485626

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A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century by Charles Oman Pdf

Værket er opdelt i 7 afsnit omhandlende den militære geografi under de store krige i perioden 1494-1559 samt strategi og taktik. Afsnit to omhandler de store slag under de Italienske krige med en vurdering af den taktiske betydning. Afsnit III omhandler perioden 1527-59, afsnit IV den Engelske militærhistorie under Tudors, afsnit V religionskrigene i Frankrig i perioden 1562-98. Bog VI beskæftiger sig med Holland og den Hollanske uafhængighedskrig 1568-1609 og endelig handler afsnit VII om det Tyrkiske angreb på kristendommen i perioden 1520-1606.

Author : Laurence Fontaine
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857450081

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Alternative Exchanges by Laurence Fontaine Pdf

Exchanges have always had more than economic significance: values circulate and encounters become institutionalized. This volume explores the changing meaning of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance to today, and thereby examines the blurring of boundaries between market, gifts, and charity. It describes the actors of the market - official entities such as corporations, recognized professions, and established markets but also the subterranean circulation that develops around the need for money. The complex layers that not only provide for numerous intermediaries but also include the many men and women who, as sellers or buyers, use these circulations on countless occasions are also examined.

Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39076002093560

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The Gift in Sixteenth-century France by Natalie Zemon Davis Pdf

In this gem of a book, Natalie Zemon Davis explores the role of gifts in Renaissance France. From the King's bounty to the beggar's alms, from the lavish feasting and display of civic dignitaries to the humble tokens exchanged by peasant bride and groom, the giving and receiving of gifts - then, as now - held tremendous significance.