Denominations and units of account
Rory Naismith
Research into Anglo-Saxon units of account can be traced back to the sixteenth century (Naismith 2015). Interest in medieval social institutions including money was strong among early modern scholars, but major impetus behind research significance monetary terms legal texts, which revolve large part around compensation paid for assorted crimes. Understanding law – and, through it, understanding important aspects organisation hence required a firm grasp system. Work this area distinct from on coinage itself. The great literary scholar and historian H. M. Chadwick, example, began his seminal Studies Institutions with two lengthy chapters system, disavowed any expertise as such (Chadwick 1905, 37). In twentieth subjects grew closer together, historians numismatists came engage directly each other well fuller range source material (Blackburn 1994a; Naismith 2015; cf. Lyon 1969; 1976; Nightingale 2007).