TY - JOUR
T1 - The Common Penny (1495-99) as a Source of German Social and Demographic History
AU - Rowan, Steven
N1 - 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.
PY - 1977/6
Y1 - 1977/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/central-european-history/article/the-common-penny-149599-as-a-source-of-german-social-and-demographic-history/CA7EDC4845B9196D41E23D242790DD91
U2 - 10.1017/S0008938900018379
DO - 10.1017/S0008938900018379
M3 - Article
VL - 10
JO - Central European History
JF - Central European History
ER -