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List of prices of medieval items2025 Jan 3
Linked is historian Kenneth Hodges' collected list of various items sold during European Medieval times and what price (in pence, shillings, pounds) those items could be purchased for. The list is sourced to real academic research, although care should be taken not to extrapolate these prices to our modern, industrial economy. Quoting Dr. Bret Deveraux on this topic:
The problem is both that the value of commodities changes over time, but in particular that the second agricultural revolution and the industrial revolutions so wildly shifted the values of commodities as to make any possible translation of ancient or medieval currency values into modern ones misleading.
So what's the point in this linked list? The prices can still be understood relative to one another, to put into context the values of various commodities in those societies. A war horse was more valuable than a sheep, but how much more? Here's your answer.
Linked is historian Kenneth Hodges' collected list of various items sold during European Medieval times and what price (in pence, shillings, pounds) those items could be purchased for. The list is sourced to real academic research, although care should be taken not to extrapolate these prices to our modern, industrial economy. Quoting Dr. Bret Deveraux on this topic: So what's the point in this linked list? The prices can still be understood relative to one another, to put into context the values of various commodities in those societies. A war horse was more valuable than a sheep, but how much more? Here's your answer.