Christine Desan's Making Money: Coin, Currency, and the Coming of Capitalism provides an authoritative answer to a fundamental question about medieval English money that has puzzled a few scholars, but that has been largely ignored by most: were medieval payments normally weighed or counted? The same question can be expressed differently as: were payments made by weight or by tale at face value; or again, was the value of money determined by its intrinsic content or by royal decree? But why might this curious distinction between counting payments and weighing them matter?

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政府、金钱和法律

克里斯汀·德桑赚钱：硬币、货币和资本主义的到来提供了一个关于中世纪英国货币的基本问题的权威答案，这个问题让一些学者感到困惑，但大多数人在很大程度上忽略了这个问题：中世纪的支付是否通常被称重或计算？同一个问题可以用不同的方式表达：是按重量还是按面值支付？或者，货币的价值是由其内在内容决定的，还是由皇家法令决定的？但是，为什么计算付款和权衡付款之间的这种奇怪区别很重要呢？