Synopses & Reviews
Professor Nicholas Mayhew is Professor of Numismatics and Monetary History at Oxford, a former Deputy Director of the Ashmolean Museum, Director of the Winton Institute for Monetary History and Fellow of St Cross College. Over the course of his forty-year career, Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history. His recent analysis of the Price Revolution is the most influential account of one of the defining features of early modern English economic life. He has been instrumental in debunking notions of a pre-monetary, feudal past, and in the application of the Fisher Equation to historical data. Mayhew has inspired two generations of medieval historians and many colleagues in related disciplines. These essays, in his honour, demonstrate the analytical power and chronological reach of the novel interdisciplinary approach he has nurtured in himself and others.
Synopsis
Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history. These essays, in his honour, demonstrate the analytical power and chronological reach of the novel interdisciplinary approach he has nurtured in himself and others.
About the Author
Martin Allen is a Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge.
D'Maris Coffman is a Leverhulme/Newton Trust Early Career Fellow at the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of the Centre of Financial History at Newnham College. She works on the relationship between public finance and private capital markets in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe. With Dr Anne Murphy of the University of Hertfordshire, Dr Coffman co-manages the European State Finance Database and with Dr Louise Pryor the Corn Returns Online. She sits on the Council of the Economic History Society. Dr Coffman received her MA and PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania and her BSc in Economics from the Wharton School.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Martin Allen and D'Maris Coffman
1. Coin Finds and the English Money Supply, c. 973-1544; Martin Allen
2. National Income in Domesday England; James T. Walker
3. Modelling the Medieval Economy: Money, Prices and Income in England, 1263-1520; Mark Casson and Catherine Casson
4. Prices from the Durham Obedientiary Account Rolls, 1278-1367; Elizabeth Gemmill
5. Credit, Crisis and the Money Supply, c. 1280-c. 1330; Phillipp Schofield
6. Finance on the Frontier: Money and Credit in Northumberland, Westmorland, and Cumberland, in the Later Middle Ages; Pamela Nightingale
7. Money and Rural Credit in the Later Middle Ages Revisited; Chris Briggs
8. The Morality of Money in Late Medieval England; James Davis
9. Labour Turnover and Wage Rates on the Demesnes of Durham Priory, 1370-1410; Richard Britnell
10. A Golden Age Rediscovered: Labourers' Wages in the Fifteenth Century; Christopher Dyer
11. Corn Prices, Corn Models and Corn Rents: What Can We Learn from the English Corn Returns?; D'Maris Coffman and Daivd Ormrod
12. London's Market for Bullion and Specie in the Eighteenth Century: The Roles of the London Mint and the Bank of England in the Stabilization of Prices; Anthony C. Hotson and Terence C. Mills
13. Monetary Trends in the UK since 1870; Nicholas Dimsdale