Medieval European Coinage: Volume 6, The Iberian Peninsula (Medieval European Coinage, Series Number 6)

Miquel Crusafont, Anna M. Balaguer, Philip Grierson
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 5/30/2013
EAN 9780521260145, ISBN10: 0521260140

Hardcover, 929 pages, 25.1 x 19.8 x 5.8 cm

75 Halftones, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 41 Tables, black and white; 7 Maps; 60 Plates, black and white

Language: English

 'This book must be part of every library whose owner intends to deal seriously with medieval numismatics.' Ursula Kampmann, Coins Weekly

This volume of Medieval European Coinage is the first English-language survey to bring the latest research on the coinage of Spain and Portugal c.1000–1500 to an international audience. A major work of reference by leading numismatic experts, the volume provides an authoritative and up-to-date account of the coinages of Aragon, Catalonia, Castile, Léon, Navarre and Portugal, which have rarely been studied together. It considers how money circulated throughout the peninsula, offering new syntheses of the monetary history of the individual kingdoms and includes an extensive catalogue of the Aragonese, Castilian, Catalan, Leonese, Navarrese and Portuguese coins in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum. This major contribution to the field will be a valuable point of reference for the study of medieval history, numismatics and archaeology.

1. Introduction; 2. Finds, hoards and monetary circulation in the Iberian Peninsula; 3. The Muslim element; 4. The Carolingians and the earliest coinages to c.1100; 5. The crown of Catalonia-Aragon; 6. The kingdom of Majorca, 1276–1343; 7. The kingdom of Navarre; 8. The kingdom of Castile-León; 9. Kingdom of Portugal; Appendices; Bibliography; Catalogue; Concordances.

Subject Areas: Economic history (KCZ), Medieval history (HBLC1), European history (HBJD), History (HB)