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Could see it going either way. Agricultural efficiency (in terms of person_fed : person_farming) in Europe was pretty low. So the dedicated headcount (monks) mi

by ethbr0 3y ago

Could see it going either way. Agricultural efficiency (in terms of person_fed : person_farming) in Europe was pretty low. So the dedicated headcount (monks) might dominate the net cost, which would make it scale more linearly with number of books.

spacebanana7 3y ago
The market price 1 medieval book was roughly the same price for 5 pigs according to this analysis [1] Price of 7 books = £5 = 100s -> 14s per book / Price of 1 Pig in London = 3s 14 / 5 => roughly 5 pigs per book Note £1 = 20s [1] http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html
- ghaff 3y ago
  Paper was also a huge cost--maybe more than the monks' labor depending upon how you want to value their real cost.
- ethbr0 3y ago
  Today I learned! Thanks!