Деньги, деньги.

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А вот интерсное:

1 pound (L) = 20 shillings (s)
1 crown = 5 shillings
1 shilling = 12 pence (d)
1 penny = 4 farthings
1 mark = 13s 4d


Item Price Date

Wine:
Best Gascon in London 4d/gallon 1331
Best Rhenish in London 8d/London "

Wine:
Cheapest 3d-4d/gal Late 13 cen
Best 8d-10d/gal "

Ale (beer comes later):
Good 1.5d/gal 14 cen
Medium 1d/gal "
Poor .75d/gal "

Ale:
First-rate 1-1.25d/gal 1320-1420
Second-rate .75-1d/gal "

Ale (best):
Somerset .75d 1338
London 1.25d "

Beer, good 1d/quart late 16 cen

Dried Fruit (eg raisins, dates, 1-4d/lb, up
figs, prunes), almonds, rice to 6d rare 14 cen(?)

Spices (cinnamon, cloves, mace,
pepper, sugar, etc). 1-3s/lb "

Pepper 4s/lb mid 13 cen
Pepper 6d/.5lb 1279-1280
Saffron 12s-15s/lb 14 cen(?)

Salted herring (wholesale) 5-10/1d 1382
Salt conger 6d each 1422-1423


Cost of feeding a knight's L30-L60, 15 cen
merchants household per year up to L100

Related note: around 1380, these are the average costs per day of feeding
people on an estate: lord, 7d; esquire, 4d; yeoman, 3d; and
groom, 1d.

[1] English Wayfaring Life in the XIVth Century, J. J. Jusserand, trans Lucy Smith, Putnam's Sons, New York,1931 (Orig. 1889).

[2] London in the Age of Chaucer, A. R. Myers, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1972

[3] Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages, Christopher Dyer, Cambridge University Press, 1989

[4] English Weapons & Warfare, 449-1660, A. V. B. Norman and Don Pottinger, Barnes & Noble, 1992 (orig. 1966)

[5] The Armourer and his Craft from the XIth to the XVIth Century, Charles ffoulkes, Dover, 1988 (orig. 1912)

[6] "The Cost of Castle Building: The Case of the Tower at Langeais," Bernard Bachrach, in The Medieval Castle: Romance and Reality, ed. Kathryn Reyerson and Faye Powe, Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa, 1984

[7] The Knight in History, Frances Gies, Harper & Row, New York, 1984

[8] Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay, Craig Turner and Tony Soper, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1990

[9] Life in a Medieval City, Joseph and Frances Gies, Harper & Row, New York, 1969