lb66 - Byzance et sa monnaie (IV-XVe siècles) MORRISSON Cécile, SCHAAF Georg-D, SPIESER Jean-Michel

Byzantium was one of the most monetised states in its time, a fact that an approach too focused on Western Europe tends to neglect. This book offers the keys to an understanding of this major instrument of power, assessing the evolution of coinage, monetary art, the role of money in Byzantine finances and economy from Constantine the Great to 1453. This illustrated handbook is accompanied by the catalogue of the modest, but representative, collection of Fribourg University (Switzerland). Based on the results of recent research, it allows the reader to understand and use a major historical source.