1. Introduction
2. Money as a Legal Institution
PART I. COINS AND THE LAW
Currency Depreciation and Debasement in Medieval Europe
Money in Medieval Philosophy
Money in the Roman Law Texts
The Legists' Doctrines on Money and the Law, Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Money in Medieval Canon Law
The Spanish Scholastics on Money and Credit
Gabriel Biel's Monetary Theory
The 'Reduction' of Money in the Low Countries, c. 1489-1515
PART II. MONEY IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD: INVENTING NOMINALISM
Monetary Reforms in the Holy Roman Empire, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
The Enforcement of Nominal Values of Money in Medieval and Early Modern Common Law
The Case of Mixt Monies (1604)
The Effects of Debasements on Debts in Early Modern Jurisprudence
German Law Faculties and Benches of Jurymen (Schoffenstuhle) on Loans and Inflation: Legal Doctrine and Seventeenth Century Legal Practice
Early Modern Monetary Policy in the Light of Contemporary Adjudication
PART III. THE EMERGENCE OF CASHLESS PAYMENT: BANK MONEY
Early Public Banks I: Ledger Money Banks
The Order to Pay Money in Medieval Continental Europe
Early English Law of Checks
'Bank Money': The Rise, Fall, and Metamorphosis of the 'Transferable Deposit in Common Law
Giro Payments and the Beginning of the Modern Cashless Payment System
PART IV. THE EMERGENCE OF PAPER MONEY
Early Public Banks II: Banks of Issue
Deposit Banking and the Use of Monetary Instruments
Early English Law of Bank Notes
Bank Notes and their Vindication in Eighteenth Century Scotland
Multiple Currency Clauses and Currency Reform: The Austrian Coupon Cases
PART V. FIAT MONEY
Putting the 'System' in the International Monetary System
The Bretton Woods System: Design and Operation
Hyper-Inflations in the Early Twentieth Century
From the State Theory of Money to Modern Monetary Theory
Responses to Crisis: Re-configuring the Monetary and the Fiscal in the Great Depression
Monetary Obligations and the Fragmentation of the Sterling Monetary Union
The German Hyper-Inflation of the 1920s
Case Study: Swedish Government Bonds, their Gold Dollar Clause and the 1933 Roosevelt Act
