Hello,
Out of curiosity more than anything else, I started wondering how much things cost in Medieval Europe. I found this list http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html which has a lot of good information on. However what I haven't been able to find is how much everday items would cost, like a pint of ale, a loaf of bread, vegetables, etc. For example on that list, it says that a gallon of cheap ale in the 14th century cost roughly 0.75d. A gallon is, according to Google, 8 pints, but the lowest deomination I have found is the farthing (0.25d).
So this threw up a question for me of how much these items cost, and how these were paid for. For example I found one online source which said a pint of ale was 0.18d, I'm not sure how reliable that is and it also throws up the question of how they paid for such a small value if the lowest denomination was 0.25d.
So, any ideas?
Well according to the Liber Albus from the early fifteenth century the cost of a quart of ale in London was a halfpenny, which was roughly two pints. The Liber outlines the basic measurement sizes recognized by common law as the tun, gallon, pottle, and quart. The pottle would be a penny, and the gallon two pence. I'm not entirely sure that pints were a normative serving but I will gladly delete my comment if another historian knows otherwise.