Changing Values in Medieval Scotland

Primary Author or Creator:
Elizabeth Gemmill
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Nicholas Mayhew
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Alternative Published Date
2006
Category:
Type of Resource:
Book
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
444pp
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A Study of Prices, Money, and Weights and Measures

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This book is a full-scale study of prices in medieval Scotland, c.1260–1542, which includes detailed discussions of coinage, and weights and measures.

Nearly 6,000 prices are listed individually, average prices are calculated for each commodity, and for groups of commodities such as cereals and livestock.  Scots prices are compared with English, and the significance of the data for the economic history of medieval Scotland is analysed fully.

This was the first complete study to have been undertaken on Scots medieval prices.

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