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Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 focuses on coins as material artefacts and agents of meaning in early modern arts. The precious metals, double-sided form, and emblematic character of coins had deep resonance in European culture and cultural encounters. Coins embodied Europe's power and the labour, increasingly located in colonised regions, of extracting gold and silver. Their efficacy depended on faith in their inherent value and the authority perceived to be imprinted into them, guaranteed through the institution of the Mint. Yet they could speak eloquently of illusion, debasement and counterfeiting. A substantial introduction precedes essays by interdisciplinary scholars on five themes: power and authority in the Mint; currency and the anxieties of global trade; coins and persons; coins in and out of circulation; credit and risk. An Afterword on a contemporary artist demonstrates the continuing expressive and symbolic power of numismatic forms.

This book sets out to provide a scholarly analysis of money and capital, the institutional economic class interests that exist in Ireland, and alternatives to same in the spheres of paid labour and social reproduction. In essence it is a political work in that it picks a side in the debate over these issues.

¿Los autoproclamados sucesores reales, los llamados \"Diádocos\", de Alejandro Magno aparecen exclusivamente en las regiones de su gigantesco imperio? ¿Egipto, Asia Menor, Babilonia, Macedonia, Grecia? ¿Se trata sólo de generales macedonios como Ptolomeo, Seleuco, Lisímaco, Casandro, Demetrio?--No. Al menos en términos de autorrepresentación imperial y según las narraciones históricas de los periodos helenístico y romano, se pueden identificar incluso en la lejana Sicilia a otros Diadocos y emuladores de Alejandro. En concreto, el primer rey oficial de Siracusa y contemporáneo de Alejandro, Agatocles, adoptó elementos significativos de la autorrepresentación persa-macedonia de Alejandro y los hibridó con la tradición pictórica local siciliana para crear nuevas creaciones interesantes y originales, que examinaremos basándonos en las monedas siracusanas y la literatura antigua.