Alan M. Stahl

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Alan M. Stahl (* 1947 ) is a medievalist who specializes in the history of coins and money as well as the Republic of Venice and its colonies .

Life

Stahl received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977 with a dissertation The Merovingian Coinage of the Region of Metz . He was the curator of the Medieval Coin Division of the American Numismatic Society from 1980 to 2000 . At the same time, he taught at the University of Venice , and also at the Universities of Michigan in Ann Arbor and at Rice University in Houston, Texas . He is currently the Curator of Numismatics at Princeton University in New Jersey , where he also teaches.

In 1985 he published The Venetian Tornesello. A Medieval Colonial Coinage , in which he was able to show in detail how Venice forced a coin on its colonies that made it possible to skim off the difference between the real value and the nominal value of the Tornesello, introduced in 1353, at the expense of its colonies. According to Stahl, 1.6 denari piccoli were obtained for a tornesello in Venice , while the official value ratio was 3: 1. The coin, which was issued in this way completely overpriced, accordingly lost massively in value by the end of the 15th century, but the compulsion was maintained and even extended to other areas of Venice using similar coins. While in 1359 one ducat corresponded to 259 Torneselli, in 1466 one received 792 of the colonial coins.

In 2000, Stahl laid with Zecca. The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages presented an analysis of the internal processes of a premodern mint for the first time.

In addition, Alan Stahl is co-director of the Michael of Rhodes Project and co-editor of the three-volume Book of Michael of Rhodes. A Fifteenth Century Maritime Miscellany , a work released in 2009. Michele da Rodi , who began as a simple oarsman (homo da remo) in the Venetian navy in 1401, and who succeeded in becoming assistant to the naval commander, i.e. armiraio, in 1422 , with which he climbed the highest post not reserved for the nobility, began To describe his life in 1434 in a manuscript that was only rediscovered in 1966. It was not until 2000 that the private owner gave the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology access to the manuscript. In addition to his life, described on just seven pages, which took him on 40 war and trade voyages to Flanders and Gallipoli and two years before his death in 1443 to London , Michele left behind technical and calendar calculations, a section on astrology , in this work one of the oldest portolans and the oldest treatise on shipbuilding.

Publications (selection)

  • The Venetian Tornesello. A Medieval Colonial Coinage , New York 1985.
  • Zecca. The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages , Baltimore 2000.
  • A Prosopography of Venetian Mint Officials , in: Medieval Prosopography 21 (2000) 41-131.
  • The Ostrogothic Coinage in Italy from AD 476 , in: Journal of Roman Archeology 18 (2005) 753-755.
  • with Pamela O. Long, David McGee (Eds.): The Book of Michael of Rhodes. A Fifteenth Century Maritime Miscellany , Cambridge 2009.
  • Numismatics in the Renaissance , in: Alan M. Stahl, Gretchen Oberfranc (Ed.): The Rebirth of Antiquity. Numismatics, Archeology, and Classical Studies in the Culture of the Renaissance , Princeton 2009, pp. 3–26.
  • The Mint of Venice in the Face of the Great Bullion Famine , in: Le Crisi Finanzierie: Gestione, implicazioni sociali e conseguenze nell'età preindustriale , Fondazione Istituto Internationale di Storia Economica “F. Datini ”Prato, Florence 2016, pp. 223-237.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Alan M. Stahl: The Merovingian Coinage of the Region of Metz , Louvain-la-Neuve 1982.
  2. ↑ Hans-Jürgen Hübner: Quia bonum sit anticipare tempus. The municipal supply of Venice with bread and grain from the late 12th to the 15th century , Frankfurt a. a. 1998, pp. 123-126.
  3. ↑ Pamela O. Long, David McGee, Alan M. Stahl (Eds.): The Book of Michael of Rhodes. A Fifteenth Century Maritime Miscellany , MIT Press, 2009. Michele authored a second manuscript, that of A. Conterio, entitled Pietro di Versi, Raxion de 'marineri. Taccuino nautico del XV secolo was published. This text was published in English in 1994: John Dotson (Ed.): Merchant Culture in Fourteenth Century Venice: the Zibaldone da Canal , Binghamton 1994.
  4. ↑ Digitized version with Italian and English transcription or translation.
  5. ^ The Book of Michael of Rhodes: A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript , Medievalists.net.
personal data
SURNAME Stahl, Alan M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steel, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American medieval historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1947