It lures dweebs in with a manic pixie wolf god and gradually shifts the focus to nerding out over medieval trade and currency exchange.
if you're interested in medieval trade and currency exchange, I recommend seeing if you can find a copy of spufford's Money and its Use in Medieval Europe to check out (not to buy, though.) it's dry, but fascinating if you have interest in mints or the situation during the first millennia. it's got a big focus on metallism, which is historically very relevant! but of course in any econ hist you should ensure you do not let the trees of record make you miss the forest of reality
on the other hand, especially if you want to focus on trade in "medieval europe" (lombard and merchant company operations in the italian peninsula), you will probably have a better time with spufford's Power and Profit: The Merchant in Medieval Europe, which is much more of an accessible pop history! it's like... what if piketty had colorful pictures and an extra two decades of research under his belt. want to read about the origin of insurance or shareholder amortization? the massive increase in the money supply through fourteenth century account-based credit? how investment in the infrastructure of bridges and advancement of carriage technology changed the relationship between road and water transport of goods? by racking the focus to a specific place in geography and place in time, the range of interrelated topics becomes surprisingly expansive!
The premiere political issue in 1890s America being over monetary policy and 'how much inflation shoud we have (farmers wanted high inflation to help wipe debts), to the point where Bryan's 1896 campaign focused exclusively on free silver, is extremely amusing to me