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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Agemegos" data-source="post: 1542889" data-attributes="member: 18377">One source I used was a list compiled by Glenys Armstrong, The Company of Ordinance +44 (0)1793 524524, which cited as its sources:New Towns of the Middle Ages - Maurice Beresford 1988A Baronial Household of the 13th Century                         - Margaret Wade La Barge 1980Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages                        - Christopher Dyer 1990Medieval Women - Henrietta Layser 1995The Medieval Soldier - Embleton and Howe 1994Memoires of the Crusades - Villeharduin & De JoinevilleAnother was a list compiled by Kenneth Hodges (hodges@jif.berkeley.edu), which cited as its sources:[1] English Wayfaring Life in the XIVth Century, J. J. Jusserand, trans Lucy Smith, Putnam's Sons, New York,1931 (Orig. 1889).[2] London in the Age of Chaucer, A. R. Myers, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1972[3] Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages, Christopher Dyer, Cambridge University Press, 1989[4] English Weapons & Warfare, 449-1660, A. V. B. Norman and Don Pottinger, Barnes & Noble, 1992 (orig. 1966)[5] The Armourer and his Craft from the XIth to the XVIth Century, Charles ffoulkes, Dover, 1988 (orig. 1912)[6]"The Cost of Castle Building: The Case of the Tower at Langeais," Bernard Bachrach, in The Medieval Castle: Romance and Reality, ed. Kathryn Reyerson and Faye Powe, Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa, 1984[7] The Knight in History, Frances Gies, Harper & Row, New York, 1984[8] Methods and Practice of Elizabethan Swordplay, Craig Turner and TonySoper, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, 1990[9] Life in a Medieval City, Joseph and Frances Gies, Harper & Row, New York, 1969Both those lists were on the Web, and you might be able to find them by searching on their author's names.I have also used information I came across in reading, for example in Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror, but the information was only scattered. The only source I could recommend as having good stuff in any concentration is Adam Smith's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.Note: both Armstong and Hodges give prices with an epoch. You will have to adjust for inflation, which was significant (not that English coin was significantly debased between about 800 and about 1485: but the production of silver-mines in Germany expended the supply of silver faster than the mediaeval economy grew).</blockquote>

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