Stephen Deng: A Cultural History Of Money In The Renaissance [2023] paperback SCHRE Here Philomena Begley takes us

Here Philomena Begley takes us from her happy beginnings as a bread-man's daughter in Pomeroy through the devastating loss of her brother Patsy and the risks of touring Ireland at the height of the Troubles

Wellington emerges as a conservative Tory Prime Minister of a country demanding every variety of reform

Because there is no right or wrong way to grieve

while conquests produced bureaucracies

Stephen Deng: A Cultural History Of Money In The Renaissance [2023] paperback SCHRE Here Philomena Begley takes usIn a time before large banking systems, and with paper money just in its infancy, money during the Renaissance meant coinage (mainly gold and silver) and local credit systems. These monetary forms had a significant influence on the ways in which money was understood throughout the period, and shaped discussions on such topics as the meaning of monetary value, the economic, political, religious, and aesthetic uses of coinage, the moral implications of