[Sca-cooks] OT- 15th century economic and prices

[Terry Decker]

My half million dollar estimate of Jean de Bethancourt's fortune is well off 
the mark, if this website is accurate:

http://www.maisonstclaire.org/resources/pricelist/pricelist.html

They place the value of the livre in the mid- to late-14th Century as $1,000 
US dollars.  According to Mulhall's Dictionary of Statistics, it was 6 
livres to the mark de Troyes in this period.  At 8 livres to the mark in the 
early 15th Century, the value of the livre should have been $750.  Thus 
7,000 livres would be roughly equivalent to $5,250,000.

Bear