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Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > Coins, banknotes, medals, seals, numismatics
"Money is a matter of functions four: a medium, a measure, a
standard, a store." But money is always a medium of communication
too, whether about price or about political conviction and
authority, fealty, desire, or disdain. In a work that spans 4,500
years, 54 experts chart across six volumes how money has made "the
world go round" and capture money's complexities in both substance
and form. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the
whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles
are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of
reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following
a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of
the six. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (2500 BCE-500 CE); 2
- Medieval Age (500-1400); 3 - Renaissance (1400-1680); 4 - Age of
Enlightenment (1680-1820); 5 - Age of Empire (1820-1920); 6 -
Modern Age (1920-present). Themes (and chapter titles) are: Money
and its Technologies; Money and its Ideas; Money, Ritual, and
Religion; Money and the Everyday; Money, Art, and Representation;
Money and its Interpretation; Money and the Issues of the Age The
total extent of the pack is approximately 1,680 pages. Each volume
opens with a Series Preface, an Introduction, and Notes on
Contributors and concludes with Notes, Bibliography, and an Index.
The Cultural Histories Series A Cultural History of Money is part
of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available as hardcover
sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a
tangible reference for their shelves or as part of a
fully-searchable digital library. The digital product is available
to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access via
www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com. Individual volumes for academics
and researchers interested in specific historical periods are also
available in print or digitally via www.bloomsburycollections.com.
This book, now available for the first time in an English
translation, was published in Dutch in 1732 by lawyer Gerard van
Loon. His aim was to give the reader a pleasant and informative
tour of the history of coins and medals and the result is an
astonishing, entertaining and surprisingly modern numismatic work.
The format, layout and plates of this English translation follow
closely those of the original edition. This translation opens up to
modern readers of all kinds the fascinating thoughts and advice of
a numismatist, historian and philosopher who lived and wrote more
than a quarter of a millennium age.
This book analyzes the evolving interaction between court and media
from an understudied perspective. Eight case studies focus on
different European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the
seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, using a comparative,
cross-media, and cross-period approach. The volume addresses a
multitude of questions, ranging from how dynastic women achieved
public prominence through their portraits; how their faces and
bodies were moulded and rearticulated to fit varying expectations
in the courtly public sphere; and the degree to which they, as
female actors, engaged with or had agency within the processes of
production and reception. In particular, two types of female
rulership and their relationship to diverse media are contrasted,
and lesser-known and under-researched dynastic women are
spotlighted. Contributors: Christine Engelke, Anna Fabiankowitsch,
Inga Lena Angstroem Grandien, Titia Hensel, Andrea Mayr, Alison
McQueen, Marion Romberg, and Alison Rowley.
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