About the book: 2010 / We present to the domestic reader Jacques Le Goff's historical and anthropological study on the role of money in the Middle Ages. The author focuses his attention on two aspects: The first is money itself, almost exclusively presented in that era in the form of coins (or rather coins), as well as everything connected with them: coinage, history of mints and types of coins, monetary circulation, formation state tax systems, the emergence of financial accounting. The second is the attitude towards money: the desire to own it. to their use. Both people and states found legitimation and justification for this, regardless of the conditions imposed by the dominant ideological institution of the Middle Ages - the Christian Church. It is no coincidence that Jacques Le Goff chose money as the subject of research: the attitude towards money reveals the fundamental difference in the mentalities of modern European people and people of the Middle Ages. Using the example of a change in attitude towards wealth, expressed in monetary form, the author traces how, within the framework of medieval society, a new attitude towards money was gradually formed, subsequently leading to the formation of the spirit of capitalism, so characteristic of modern European civilization.