Money has shaped civilizations for centuries, but in Medieval Europe, it didn’t work the way we think today. The rise of banking, trade credit, and money changers transformed the economy from a simple ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

Byzantine bullion fuelled Europe’s revolutionary adoption of silver coins in the mid-7 th century, only to be overtaken by silver from a mine in Charlemagne’s Francia a century later, new tests reveal ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A historian of medieval England specializing in economic and monetary history has won Western Michigan University's Otto Gründler Book Prize. Dr. Rory Naismith, professor of early ...

When we think of medieval times we don’t exactly think of prosperity.But new research finds that the medieval Brits may not have been so bad off financially – and may have been better off than ...