Money Circulation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times: Time, Range, Intensity

Money Circulation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times: Time, Range, Intensity Review

The question as to how money circulated in Europe from Antiquity to the 17th century still remains unsolved. The studies in this volume, based on new finds and new scientific methods, contribute more results. They concern different aspects of the question, including the role of Celtic coins in Moravia in the light of the sensational finds from Nemcice, the inflow of dirhams and their imitations into Baltic, and the comparison of silver circulation in Scandinavia, old Prussia and Germany in the Viking-Age. The beginnings of coinage in Bohemia and Lithuania are also studied. -------------------------- CONTENTS: Preface / Ryszard Kiersnowski (Wilno 4 November 1925 - Warszawa 7 July 2006) / The Fiftieth Anniversary of 'Wiadomosci Numizmatyczne' / Fundmuenzen vom Keltenzentrum Nemcice (Maehren): Beitrag zum keltischen Muenzumlauf im Mitteldonaugebiet / Some Remarks on Monetary Circulation in Viking-Age Scandinavia / Monetary Circulation in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries: A Short Survey in the Light of Die Studies / The Marking of Dirhams at Some Principal Samanid Mints / Coin Finds in the Viking-Age Emporium at Janow Pomorski (Truso) and the 'Prussian Phenomenon' / Coin Circulation in Viking-Age Germany / The 10th Century Bohemian Deniers in the Light of Revised Finds / Die Muenzen des Fundes von Ulejno (Grosspolen), tpq 1009 / Monetary Circulation in Denmark from c. 1100 to c. 1500 / Coins and Coin Circulation in Medieval Finland / The Circulation of the Earliest Lithuanian Coins / Zur Interpretation der Zeugenaussage der Muenzfunde ueber den Geldumlauf in Boehmen im 16. und in der 1. Haelfte des 17. Jahrhunderts

In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age

In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age Review

From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important and immensely readable book finally fills the gap. In Our Prime is a biography of the idea of middle age from its invention in the late nineteenth century to its current place at the center of American society, where it shapes the way we view our families, our professional obligations, and our inner lives. Patricia Cohen ranges over the entire landscape of midlife, exploring how its biological, psychological, and social definitions have shifted from one generation to the next. Middle age has been a symbol both of decline and of power and wealth. Explaining why, Cohen takes readers from early-twentieth-century factories that refused to hire middle-aged men to twenty-first-century high-tech laboratories where researchers are currently conducting cutting-edge experiments on the middle-aged brain and body.

Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology

Middle Age and Aging: A Reader in Social Psychology Review

The process of aging is receiving an increasing amount of attention from behavioral scientists. Middle Age and Aging is an attempt to organize and select from the proliferation of material available in this field. The selections in this volume emphasize some of the major topics that lie closest to the problem of what social and psychological adaptations are required as individuals move through the second half of their lives. Major attention is paid to the importance of age-status and age-sex roles; psychological changes in the life-cycle; social-psychological theories of aging; attitudes toward health; changing family roles; work, retirement, and leisure; certain other dimensions of the immediate social environment such as friendships, neighboring patterns, and living arrangements; differences in cultural settings; and perspectives of time and death.

A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100 (Blackwell Companions to British History)

A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland c.500-1100 (Blackwell Companions to British History) Review

Drawing on 28 original essays, A Companion to the Early Middle Ages takes an inclusive approach to the history of Britain and Ireland from c.500 to c.1100 to overcome artificial distinctions of modern national boundaries.

•  A collaborative history from leading scholars, covering the key debates and issues
  
• Surveys the building blocks of political society, and considers whether there were fundamental differences across Britain and Ireland
  
• Considers potential factors for change, including the economy, Christianisation, and the Vikings