Dariusz Adamczyk - Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450

Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 10501450 explores the varied uses of silver and gold in the Baltic Sea zone during the medieval period.

Ten original contributions examine coins and currencies, trade, economy, and power, taking care to avoid an out-of-date approach to economic history which assumes a progression from primitive forms to developed structures. Combining a variety of methodological approaches, and drawing on written sources, archaeological and numismatic evidence, and anthropological perspectives, the book considers the various ways in which silver and gold were used as monetary currency, fiscal instruments of power, and gifts in the High and Late Medieval societies of the Baltic Sea.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval European history, as well as those interested in economic history, and the history of trade and commerce.

Dariusz Adamczyk is Associate Professor at the University of Hannover, Germany.

Beata Moejko is Professor at the Institute of History, University of Gdask, Poland.

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Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 10501450

Edited by Dariusz Adamczyk and Beata Moejko

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Names: Adamczyk, Dariusz, editor.
Title: Monetisation and commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450 / edited by Dariusz Adamczyk and Beata Moejko.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2021] | Series: Studies in medieval history and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: LCSH: Money--Baltic Sea--History. | Money--Baltic States--History--To 1500. | Commercialism--Baltic Sea--History. | Baltic Sea--Commerce--History.
Classification: LCC HG1089.6 .M67 2021 (print) | LCC HG1089.6 (ebook) | DDC 332.4/94850902--dc23
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Dariusz Adamczyk is a Researcher at the Deutsches Historisches Institut Warschau and Associate Professor in History at Leibniz University, Hannover. Publications include Monetarisierungsmomente, Kommerzialisierungszonen oder fiskalische Whrungslandschaften? Edelmetalle, Silberverteilungsnetzwerke und Gesellschaften in Ostmitteleuropa (8001200) (2020) and Silber und Macht. Fernhandel, Tribute und die piastische Herrschaftsbildung in nordosteuropischer Perspektive (8001100) (2014; Polisch translation 2018). His research interests focus on Viking Age silver flows, the history of trade and money and the state building in Eastern Europe.

Ulf Christian Ewert is a trained historian (Doctorate in Medieval and Modern History, University of Kiel 1999; Habilitation including a Venia legendi in Medieval History as well as in Economic and Social History, Chemnitz University of Technology 2008), economist and econometrician (Diploma in Business Administration and Econometrics, University of Kiel 1994). He has taught medieval and economic history at Chemnitz University of Technology, Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Free University of Berlin and the universities of Munich, Mnster, Halle and Regensburg. His research emphasis has always been on long-term developments in the pre-modern era and particularly covers the medieval Hanse, the Portuguese overseas expansion, the political economy of princely courts, and living standards. He published numerous articles on these issues, and his work also encompasses economic theoretical approaches to the historical analysis of medieval and early-modern rules, institutions and organisations, thereby extensively drawing upon concepts of the New Institutional Economics, game theory and statistics. Currently, he is working at the University of Erfurt in an international research project on fairs in late medieval and early-modern Europe.

Marcin Grulkowski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, interested in: codicology, the chancelleries of Hanseatic cities in the late Middle Ages and the early modern era, the history of Gdask finances. He also took part in research projects dealing with publishing Gdask account book of the 14th15th century. Since 2019 he has been a member of the Group of Urban History at the Committee of Historical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences.