Medieval Statistics

Accounting, Record-Keeping and Financial Management, 1066-1525

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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It will be useful as a handbook for researchers in financial and cultural history, as a history of financial record-keeping, and as a review of recent research into medieval finance and accounting based on statistical sources. Medieval statistics provide a unique window on the past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-12-27
Mått148 x 210 x 30 mm
Vikt674 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in the History of Finance
Antal sidor408
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031697296

Tillhör följande kategorier

Finansiering inom Ekonomi och ledarskap
Medeltiden inom Historia och arkeologi
Redovisning inom Ekonomi och ledarskap
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och ledarskap

Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading and Director of the Centre for Institutions and Economic History at Reading. He has long-standing research interests in entrepreneurship, business culture, the economics of the multinational enterprise, business history, the economic history of towns, and transport studies. He was President of the Association of Business Historians and member of the Council of the Royal and Economic Society. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, consulting editor of the Journal of World Business and the International Business Review, Chair of Trustees of the Business Enterprise Heritage Trust and a member of the History Committee of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS). John S. Lee is a researcher at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. His research interests are in the economy and society of medieval England, and local and regional history. His work has ranged from studies of merchants and fairs, and towns and their hinterlands, to religious commemorative practices and the estates of the Knights Templar.

1. Introduction: The Nature and Significance of Medieval Statistics.- 2. The Domesday Book(s): Income Before and After the Norman Conquest.- 3. Medieval Monastic Accounting Records: Potentials and Pitfalls for Statistical Analysis.- 4. Population Statistics.- 5. Agricultural Statistics.- 6. Overseas, Inland and Coastal Trade.- 7. Industry I: Cloth and Tin.- 8. Industry II: Mining, Fishing, Salt-Making, Building and Urban Manufacturing.- 9. Urban Rents and the Property Market.- 10. Money Supply.- 11. The Size of the Medieval Economy.