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

[Guenièvre de Monmarché]

I'm not sure this has *direct* relevance to his question, but it's still
interesting - it's a comparison of various commodities with the wages of 2
skilled craftsmen.

http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/SPICES1

YIS,
Guenièvre



On Dec 13, 2007 12:15 AM, Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Greetings to the list,
>
> I got this inquiry on Tuesday and I'm hoping that some of you can
> help this gentleman out. I believe that Bear may have done some
> economic research and might be able to give some sources for instance.
>
> I've not seen the Canaries come up in many of the SCA lists I've read
> over the years, so his history notes on the Canaries were interesting
> as well.
>
> I did point him to these Florilegium files, but I'm sure there are
> better sources out there.
> p-prices-msg      (62K)  2/ 5/06    Prices for medieval items.
> p-prices-srcs-art (11K)  4/14/02    "A review of useful sources for
> Period
>                                        Prices" by Lord Anton de Stoc.
>
> At least he is doing this before the New World gold and silver
> started flooding back to Spain and distorting the economy there.
>
> Please remember that his not on this list so CC any replies to him at
> tandrad at emory.edu  as well.
>
> Thanks,
>   Stefan
>
> =====
> From:     tandrad at emory.edu
> Subject:        Medieval Economies -- Query from a Historian
> Date:   December 11, 2007 10:26:33 AM CST
> To:       stefan at florilegium.org
>
> Dear Mr. Harris,
>
> In doing some research on the medieval conquest of the Canary Islands
> of 1402, I came across your wonderful website. I have had considerable
> difficulty trying to imagine what 7000 French livres must have been
> worth in the early fifteenth century and found extremely little in the
> scholarly literature. Your site seemed to me to be one of the few
> places where people were thinking about what the medieval economy
> _felt_ like, or how it might have been experienced.
>
> (The reason I'm interested in the sum of 7000 livres is because that's
> how much the French Norman Knight Jean de Bethencourt had available
> (by selling his feudal domaines and a pirated ship) to fund his
> conquest of the Canaries. It must have been a very large sum, but it
> wasn't enough to finish the job, and he had to ask for help from the
> King of Spain, which is why the Canaries became Spanish and why so
> much of the New World is Spanish-speaking.)
>
> Do you have any advice about how one might gain this kind of
> understanding? Any articles or publications that might shed light on
> this issue would be most appreciated.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Tonio
> --
> Tonio Andrade
> Assistant Professor of History
> Emory University
>
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas
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