Martin Allen

Early Medieval Monetary History (eBook, PDF)

Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn
Redaktion: Naismith, Rory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume consists of over twenty new essays written by friends, colleagues and pupils of Mark Blackburn, Keeper of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum and Reader in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, who died on 1 September 2011. As well as a fitting tribute to a remarkable scholar, the collection constitutes a major body of research which will be of long-term value to scholars with an interest in early medieval numismatics and monetary history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351942539
• Artikelnr.: 49335730

Autorenporträt

Dr Rory Naismith is Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare College. He is also General Editor and Secretary of the British Academy's Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles project. His publications include Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: the Southern English Kingdoms, 757-865 (2011) and The Coinage of Southern England, 796-865 (London, 2011). Dr Martin Allen is Senior Assistant Keeper in the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the History Faculty of the University of Cambridge. He is the Editor of the British Numismatic Journal, and his publications include Mints and Money in Medieval England (2012). Dr Elina Screen is a Departmental Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford, and College Lecturer in Medieval History at Trinity College, Oxford. She is also General Editor of the Medieval European Coinage Project (a British Academy Research Project). Her publications include Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles 65. Norwegian Collections: Part I. Anglo-Saxon Coins to 1016 (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foreword; Introduction: Mark Blackburn and early medieval monetary history
Rory Naismith
Martin Allen and Elina Screen. Part I Progress in Early Medieval Monetary History: Coins and currency in Viking England
AD 865-954
Gareth Williams; Prelude to reform: 10th-century English coinage in perspective
Rory Naismith; Coinage and currency under William I and William II
Martin Allen. Part II Interdisciplinary Perspectives: XPICTIANA RELIGIO and the tomb of Christ
Martin Biddle; The portrait coinage of Charlemagne
Simon Coupland; M for Mark: the iconography of Series M
variants and the Agnus Dei
Anna Gannon; The stylistic structure of Edward the Confessor's coinage
Tuukka Talvio; Bovo soldare: a sacred cow of Spanish economic history re-evaluated
Jonathan Jarrett. Part III Use and Circulation of Currency: Byzantine coins in early Medieval Britain: a Byzantinist's assessment
Cécile Morrisson; Thrymsas and sceattas and the balance of payments
D.M. Metcalf; The use of coin in the Carolingian Empire in the 9th century
Simon Coupland; Monetary activity in Viking-Age Ireland: the evidence of the single-finds
Andrew R. Woods; Vestfold: a monetary perspective on the Viking Age
Svein H. Gullbekk; Currency conversion: coins
Christianity and Norwegian society in the late 10th and 11th centuries
Elina Screen; Islamic and Christian gold coins from Spanish mints found in England
mid-11th to mid-13th centuries
Marion M. Archibald. Part IV Coins and Coin Hoards in Context: A 7th-century Anglo-Saxon solidus pendant of the Cross-on-Steps type found in Kent
Stewart Lyon
with an appendix by Michael Cowell; A small hoard of Burgred pennies from Banbury Castle
Oxfordshire
David Symons; The 1699 Port Glasgow hoard
Hugh Pagan; The Viking invasions 885-889 and the activity of the mint of Rouen
Jens Christian Moesgaard with the collaboration of Michel Dhénin; The Swordless St Peter coinage of York
c.905-c.919
Megan Gooch; The 2003 Glenfaba hoard (c.1030)