Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750

Cover -- Table Of Contents -- Introduction: Embodying Value -- Power And Authority In The Mint -- 1. Weighing Things Up In Maarten De Vos's Tribunal Of The Brabant Mint 1594 -- Joanna Woodall -- 2. Scaling The World: Allegory Of Coinage And Monetary Governance In The Dutch Republic -- Sebastian Felten And Jessica Stevenson Stewart -- Currency And The Anxieties Of Global Trade -- 3. Market Stall In Batavia: Money, Value, And Uncertainty In The Age Of Global Trade -- Angela Ho -- 4. Beyond The Mint: Picturing Gold On The Rijksmuseum's Box Of The Dutch West India Company -- Carrie Anderson Coins And Persons -- 5. The Heft Of Truth: Inwardness And Debased Coinage In Shakespeare's Plays -- Rana Choi -- 6. Identity, Agency, Motion: Taylor's Twelvepence And The Poetry Of Commodity -- Heather G.s. Johnson -- Coins In And Out Of Circulation -- 7. Margarethe Butzbach And The Florin Extorted By Blows -- Coins Securing Social Bonds In Fifteenth-century Germany* -- Allison Stielau -- 8. Centring The Coin In Jacob Backer's Woman With A Coin* -- Natasha Seaman -- Credit And Risk -- 9. Accounting Faith And Seeing 'ghost Money' In Masaccio's Tribute Money* -- Roger J. Crum 10. Monetary Transactions And Pictorial Gambles In Georges De La Tour -- Dalia Judovitz -- Afterword -- The Work Of Art: The Installations Of Kelli Rae Adams -- Natasha Seaman -- Index -- List Of Illustrations -- I Leonhard Beck, The Young Emperor Maximilian Visiting A Mint, C. 1514-1516, Woodcut, Dimensions Unknown, For Marx Treitzsauerwein, Der Weißkunig, Privately Circulated, 1526. Illustration From The Edition Commercially Published By Joseph Kurzboeck, Vienna Ii Jost Amman (designer), Hartman Schopper (author), Monetarius, 1568, Woodcut And Letterpress, 148 X 79 Mm (print 90 X 61), From Panoplia Omnium Illiberalium Mechanicarum (the Book Of Trades), Frankfurt: Sigmund Feierabend, 1568. © Lebrecht Music & Arts -- Iii Unknown Artist, Group Portrait Of Mintmaster Clemens Van Eembrugge And His Companions, 1581, Oil On Panel, Dimensions Unknown. 's-heerenberg, Netherlands, Huis Bergh Castle. Iv Unknown Indo-christian Artist, The Virgin Of Mount Potosí, C. 1740, Oil On Canvas, Dimensions Unknown. Potosí, Museo De La Casa Nacional De Moneda. Photo © Julie Laurent/julyinireland (flickr). -- V Jacob Jonghelinck, Medal Of Philip Ii Of Spain To Commemorate The Victory Of Saint Quentin. Obverse: Philip Ii Laureate, Reverse: Saint Quentin With Commemorative Inscription, 1557, Silver, 35 Mm Diameter. Location Unknown. © Artokoloro/ Alamy Stock Ph Vi Frans Francken The Younger, The Cabinet Of A Collector With Paintings, Shells, Coins, Fossils And Flowers, 1619, Oil On Panel, 85 X 56 Cm. Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum Voor Schone Kunsten. Photo: Hugo Maertens, Collection Kmska -- Flemish Community (cc0). Edited By Natasha Seaman And Joanna Woodall. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.