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In the early centuries of the Middle Ages, the economy in Europe collapsed and trade was reduced to a trickle. Monetary economy survived only in a rudimentary form; the last Roman banks disappeared in the course of the sixth and seventh centuries, and banking and on-cash monetary payment systems...
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"This volume consists of over twenty new essays written by friends, colleagues and pupils of Dr Mark Blackburn, Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Reader in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, who died on 1 September 2011. As well as a fitting...
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We explore the relationship between voting rights and taxation in medieval England and France. We hypothesize that … tax payments were tightly linked, was used to finance new, large-scale collective projects in both England and France …. Strong rule-of-law institutions are necessary to produce such taxes. In England, where security of rule remained high, the …
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