Cities – Coins – Commerce: Essays presented to Ian Blanchard on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday 3515101306, 9783515101301

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ian Blanchard – A Very Personal Appreciation
The Descent into a Dark Age: Byzantine Europe, c.400–800 A.D.
Royal Initiative and Scottish Burghs, 1100–1400
Neighbourhoods, Suburbs and Ethnic Quarters in the HungarianTowns, Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries
The Study of Medieval Foreign Trade of Hungary: A Historiographical Overview
Credit and its Record in the Later Medieval English Countryside
Bad Money, Evil Coins? Coin Debasement and Devaluation as Instruments of Monetary Policy on the Eve of the ‘Price Revolution’
Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
The Höchstetter Bankruptcy of 1529 and its Relationship to the European Quicksilver Market
Technique or Demand? The Revival of the English Copper Industry, ca. 1680–1730
Serendipity and a Statue: Dundee, Robert Burns and ‘a monument worthy of Scotland’
Japan’s Integration into the International Cashless Payment System. A Case Study
List of Contributors

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Cities – Coins – Commerce Edited by Philipp Robinson Rössner

Studien zur Gewerbeund Handelsgeschichte der vorindustriellen Zeit Vormals Göttinger Beiträge zur Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte ––––––––––––––––––––––– Begründet von Wilhelm Abel und Karl Heinrich Kaufhold Herausgegeben von Karl Heinrich Kaufhold und Markus A. Denzel Redaktion: Hans-Jürgen Gerhard

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Cities – Coins – Commerce Essays presented to Ian Blanchard on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday Edited by Philipp Robinson Rössner

Franz Steiner Verlag

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Philipp Robinson Rössner Ian Blanchard. An Appreciation (incl. full list of publications) Michael Palairet (Edinburgh) The Descent into a Dark Age: Byzantine Europe, c.400–800 A.D.

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Richard Britnell (Durham) Royal Initiative and Scottish Burghs, 1100–1400

25

Katalin Szende (Central European University, Budapest) Neighbourhoods, Suburbs and Ethnic Quarters in the Hungarian Towns, Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries

43

Balázs Nagy (Central European University, Budapest) The Study of Medieval Foreign Trade of Hungary: A Historiographical Overview

65

Phillipp Schofield (Aberystwyth) Credit and its Record in the Later Medieval English Countryside

77

Philipp Robinson Rössner (Leipzig) Bad Money, Evil Coins? Coin Debasement and Devaluation as Instruments of Monetary Policy on the Eve of the ‘Price Revolution’

89

John Munro (Toronto) Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries

121

Thomas Max Safley (Pennsylvania) The Höchstetter Bankruptcy of 1529 and its Relationship to the European Quicksilver Market

149

Nuala Zahedieh (Edinburgh) Technique or Demand? The Revival of the English Copper Industry, ca. 1680–1730

167

vi Christopher A. Whatley (Dundee) Serendipity and a Statue: Dundee, Robert Burns and ‘a monument worthy of Scotland’

175

Markus A. Denzel (Leipzig / Bolzano) Japan’s Integration into the International Cashless Payment System. A Case Study

187

List of Contributors

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Tabula Gratulatoria Erik Aerts, Leuven

Erich Landsteiner, Vienna

Chris Briggs, Cambridge

John Langdon, Edmonton, Alberta (Canada)

Richard Britnell, Durham Bruce M. S. Campbell, Belfast Martha Carlin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA) Martin Chick, Edinburgh Guillaume Daudin, Paris Roger Davidson, Edinburgh E. Patricia Dennison, Edinburgh Markus A. Denzel, Leipzig / Bolzano Department of Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest

József Laszlovszky, Budapest