From Silver to Copper: Monetary Changes in Fifteenth-Century Egypt

Abstract

without taking into consideration the demographic crisis during that period. Viewing the economic scene, and here the Egyptian case is best documented and most carefully researched, it is now clear that the population decline caused by the bubonic plague of the mid-fourteenth century and its recurrences severely affected the late medieval economy and was a major reason for its long-term depression. Current assessments of the secular economic trend in the Land of the Nile