Harald Witthöft: Über Korn und Brot – Geld und Münze

Rechte Zahl und aequalitas als gerechter Preis in Mittelalter und Neuzeit

Grain and bread tell us about an early medieval Franconian market and its subsequent alterations within the German Empire over more than ten centuries. Both products were part of an elementary numeric economic order. Medieval ‘cathedrals’ of economic practice arose by means of numbers. As markets and currency developed dynamically since the 12^th/13^th century, the esteem and evaluation of grain and bread changed accordingly. An ideally static relation of money and products began to turn into an increasingly dynamic one. A legal system of assessment for the weight and/or prices of bread depending on the market-prices of grain (Korn-Taxen) is documenting a process of long duration between the 12^th and 18^th century. It was deeply rooted in a static economic and monetary order, but it became and stayed dynamic in modern markets.

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