Monastic Chronicle: paying in pigs

Because if you're raising pigs, and the monastery needs foodstuffs, why translate through monetary units? Just deliver the pig!

I'm sure this is a "well duh" for many of my colleagues, but it is my own special moment of "aha" for the day for me!

A new meaning for the term "piggybank"?

I'll see myself out...

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And because this isn't my normal "thing" (I'm a musicologist, talk to me about neumes and I'm fine!), I was remarkably slow to realize that about a third of the folks were paying their bills in "tusks" -- "hauern" -- that is, with pigs.

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And in my monastic chronicle, men evidently pay for things, while women pay more often for prayers and services. (This is ca. 1606-7)

Not entirely, of course: one of the women pays for a window, and two others for specific door-latches. ("I scrimped and saved and paid for this lock and key, look at me!")

Also, you could be a servant and still help fund the monastery.

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An update on the monastic chronicle: they did have women donors — they’re listed in a separate chapter of the chronicle.

I didn’t realize money was gendered!

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