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This was a sophisticated mercantile economy in which paper money was supplied by private enterprise and credit was based on the sale of contracts for the future supply of salt to the government – a commodity for which demand was exceptionally stable.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
The Arabian Nights (New Deluxe Edition): Based on the Text Edited by Muhsin Mahdi
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Government was exercised by a council of nobles headed by a Regent,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
The first volume of the new historical-critical edition, Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter (SKS), saw the light in 1997 and will when completed comprise fifty-five volumes, twenty-eight of them consisting of Kierkegaard’s own text and twenty-seven consisting of extensive explanatory notes. The edition is scheduled for completion in 2013.
John Lippitt • The Oxford Handbook of Kierkegaard (Oxford Handbooks)
Sir Henry Garraway,
John Keay • The Honourable Company: History of the English East India Company
See Higham 1995, 74ff for the argument that King Edwin of Northumbria had the list drawn up in about 627 by Bishop Paulinus in the aftermath of his war against Wessex. The perceived crime was an assassination attempt on Edwin by a Wessex ambassador in 626, vividly described by Bede in HE II.9.
Max Adams • The First Kingdom
The best-known inventory of the food renders expected from a land unit is found in the very comprehensive late seventh-century laws of King Ine of Wessex, which detail annual dues from every ten hides of land and give some idea of the range and quantity of agricultural surplus claimed by lords of their clients: Ten vats of honey, 300 loaves, 12
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