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"Accompanying a 2023 exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, Medieval Money, Merchants, and Morality focuses on the economic revolution that took place in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance in Europe. Featuring essays by Diane Wolfthal and additional contributions by Steven A. Epstein, David Yoon, and Deirdre Jackson, this publication provides an in-depth look into the origins of money and how it transformed the culture and values of European society."

This book offers an account of the difficulties of (re-)writing European and East Asian history after the end of the Cold War. Despite the search for a new master narrative, polyphony and dissonances are produced: the year 1989 has generated broken narratives.

Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region's Greek Christian inhabitants were cut off from their Orthodox compatriots in Byzantium and became subject to the spiritual and legal jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic popes. Nonetheless, they continued to follow the religious laws of the Byzantine church; out of thirty-six surviving manuscripts of Byzantine canon law produced between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, the majority date to the centuries after the Norman conquest. This book is a historical study of these manuscripts, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of medieval southern Italy persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule.