The monetary reforms of Charlemagne and the circulation of money in early medieval Campania
W. R. Day
The article examines the degree to which Charlemagne's conquest of Lombardy extended domain Carolingian silver denarius into Italy, and argues that changeover from gold was markedly gradual ultimately temporary in south especially Campania. In economic sphere at least, southern Italy never fully integrated sphere, but looked rather central eastern Mediterranean.
Early Medieval Europe