Bullion Flows and Monetary Policies in England and the Low Countries, 1350-1500

Did money matter in the economic history of medieval Europe? In these essays John Munro has pursued the controversies surrounding the monetary (not monetarist) history of the period, specifically in relation to England and Flanders, and the other Burgundian Low Countries, during the late Middle Ages. He argues that, without doubt, monetary factors and policies were crucial, and attempts to integrate them with other factors, themselves often of equal significance, such as demographic change or institutional controls. The focus is upon the international flow of precious metals through the region and various related economic themes: the so-called late-medieval bullion famine; the relation between monetary and price changes; the role of coinage in financing warfare ; bullionist mint policies as both fiscal and monetary remedies for perceived economic, political, and military problems; and the consequences of warfare, war-financing, monetary policies, and related monetary problems for the two countries' commerce, finance and industries, especially those involving woollen textiles. Quelle tait la vritable importance de largent dans lhistoire montaire et conomique de lEurope du Moyen Age? Au travers de ce volume, John Munro poursuit les controverses de cette priode, plus spcifiquement se rapportant lAngleterre et aux Flandres, ainsi quaux autres Pays-Bas Bourguignons, vers la fin du Moyen Age. Il affirme que la politique et les facteurs montaires taient, sans aucun doute, dune importance vitale et tente de les intger dautres paramtres tout aussi significants, tels le changement dmographique et les controles institutionnels. Laccent est mis sur la circulation internationale de mtaux prcieux dans toute la rgion, ainsi que sur divers thmes sy rattachant: la soit-disante famine dor du Bas Moyen Age; le rapport entre changements montaires et changements de prix; le rle de la fra