The Common Penny (1495–99) as a Source of German Social and Demographic History

Bibliographic Data

ID9644044
AuthorsSteven Rowan (0000-0001-8026-0758, corresponding author), Steven W Rowan
Year1977
Volume10
Issue2
Pages148-164
Publication date1977-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCentral European History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0008938900018379
OpenAlexW2043857374
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited2

The returns of a tax called the common penny ( gemeiner Pfennig ) survive in considerable number, and when they are fully exploited they will help to make pre-Reformation Germany much more intimately known than ever before. Registers of this levy are likely to turn up in archives where they might not be expected. It is important, as a result, to know how to recognize and use these materials, most of which still remain to be identified. I will briefly review the common penny and its collection, and then I will demonstrate its potential as a resource for the study of social and demographic history

Archaeology · Common sense · Genealogy · German · Penny · Political science · Resource (disambiguation · Computer Science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Legal Studies and Society · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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