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Making money in sixteenth-century France : currency, culture, and the state /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parsons, Jotham (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
Money > France > History > 16th century.
Money.
France.
Geld.
Frankreich.
1500 - 1599
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Meanings of money
  • Money in theory
  • The structure of the argument
  • The Cour des Monnaies
  • The Pinatel affair
  • The sovereignty of the Moneys
  • Rebuilding the Monnaies
  • The personnel
  • The Moneys day to day
  • The wars of religion and beyond
  • The logic of economic regulation
  • The Aristotelian heritage
  • Ambition and avarice
  • Sumptuary legislation
  • Virtue, commerce, and regulation
  • The autonomous economy
  • The inflationary crisis and the reforms of 1577
  • Challenges and policies
  • Henri II and Charles IX: from police to policy
  • Jacques Colas and the new monetary thought
  • Facing crisis: 1572-1577
  • Confronting the great inflation
  • Explaining the 1577 reforms
  • The great debasement and recoinage
  • Money and sovereignty
  • The wars of the three Henries
  • Reconstruction
  • A science of maxims
  • Money and modernity
  • The new marvels
  • Crimes against the currency
  • Crimes and enforcement
  • The criminals: elites and upward mobility
  • The criminals: artisans and downward mobility
  • The criminals: women and families
  • Alchemy
  • Politics of enforcement
  • The monetary imaginary of Renaissance France
  • Gods
  • The alchemical narrative
  • The noble metal
  • The House of the Goddess
  • Monkeys
  • Comedy, counterfeit, and the picaresque
  • Monnaie de Singe
  • Conclusion: the Court and the Queen.