Making Money in Sixteenth-Century France: Currency, Culture, and the State
Jotham Parsons
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 ... Read more
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