Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050-1450 explores the varied uses of silver and gold in the Baltic Sea zone during the medieval period. It will appeal to scholars and students of medieval European history, as well as those interested in economic history, and the history of trade and commerce.

Dariusz Adamczyk is Associate Professor at the University of Hannover, Germany.

Beata Möejko is Professor at the Institute of History, University of Gdansk, Poland.

Introduction

DARIUSZ ADAMCZYK AND BEATA MO¿EJKO 1

1 Money, gift or instrument of power? Hybrid (political) economies in the post-Viking age around the Baltic Sea 9

DARIUSZ ADAMCZYK

2 Coin circulation in Poland under the rule of Boles¿aw III Wrymouth (1102-1138) 21

GRZEGORZ ¿NIE¿KO

3 Two stages of monetisation: Periodic recoinages and coin debasement in the Czech lands 47

ROMAN ZAORAL

4 The trade between Slesvig/Lübeck and Novgorod c. 1050 until c. 1450 63

CARSTEN JAHNKE

5 Limited use of money in late-medieval commerce: Economic considerations on the viability of Hanseatic "reciprocal trade" 77

ULF CHRISTIAN EWERT

6 Monetisation and economic inequality among peasants in medieval Poland 98

PIOTR GUZOWSKI

7 Toru¿'s burghers and silver/gold in the first half of the fifteenth century 123

KRZYSZTOF KOPI¿SKI

8 The use of gold and silver in the praxis of a merchant in late medieval Gdäsk 142

ANNA PAULINA OR¿OWSKA

9 City and money during a war: Gdäsk debt during the Thirteen Years' War 159

MARCIN GRULKOWSKI