Crown of Aragon ready reckoner

In Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350, Robert I Burns, SJ, writes:

This is a very interesting book, and Mr Burns was clearly right to become an archive snuffler rather than a shopkeeper:

Oh dear. If the penny is interchangeable, and if V = 12 and V = 1.5 * B, then B = 8, not 18. I’ve turned some more of Mr Burns’ data in the form of a calculator, for the purposes of which I have made two assumptions:

1. That he has got the penny conversions wrong, not the rest.
2. That when he uses the word sou, he is referring to the most recent instance of qualified use in his text.

Here it is. Enter a number in one of the cells and then hit the go button:

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Comments

1. Geoff sez:
   31 May 2004 at 10:50 AM

   Factor 62 between low and high house rents is a lot, and two slaves = 1 horse, phew

2. Mikel sez:
   31 May 2004 at 2:20 PM

   I don’t see where Burns’s conversion is wrong. If one Valencian sou is worth 1 and a half Barcelona sous, then 12 Valencia pence are worth 18 Barcelona pence. ¿O no?

3. Trevor sez:
   31 May 2004 at 8:24 PM

   You’re completely right. Holiday head, I’m afraid. Sorry Mr Burns!

4. MM sez:
   31 May 2004 at 11:21 PM

   There’s that old saying, that if you look after the pseudo-Josephine mazmodins, the Almoravid morabatins will look after themselves.

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