Experiences of instability and inequality that plague present-day societies spark lively debates on current economic models. Researchers interested in the intersection of culture and economics not only turn to alternative (and supposedly more moral) economies of the past, but also to their own impact on influencing and facilitating the political economies of the present. How societies of the past negotiated and structured the relationship between morality and economy, however, is still relatively ill understood. The project I will present investigates a genre of historical sources that offers the opportunity to trace the communicative construction of pre-modern political economies through the writing of history. Later medieval chronicles of cities, monasteries (men’s and women’s), and courts abound in occasional mentions and deeper discussions of money. Their study stands to reveal medieval manifestations of expanding monetary consciousness(es) and institutionally diverse religious/moral sensibilities, just as it promises to find a versatile communicative tool that shaped economic thought and practice and was placed in the service of institutional strategies of remembering the past for the needs of the (medieval) present and aspirations around the future.