The Florentine Florin: The Politics and Culture of Money in the Middle Ages

Locatelli revises our understanding of the leading currency of the Middle Ages, the florin, by investigating it as a medium with hitherto neglected political, social, and cultural dimensions in the interactions between the Florentine merchants, the Angevin Crown, and the Papacy.

Stefano Locatelli is Assistant Professor of Economic History at the University of Parma