Early medieval monetary history : studies in memory of Mark Blackburn / edited by Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge, UK, Martin Allen, Fitzuillion Museum, Cambridge, Elina Screen, University of Oxford, UK.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Naismith, Rory, compiler of edition.

Allen, Martin (Martin R.), compiler of edition.

Screen, Elina, compiler of edition.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Studies in early medieval Britain and Ireland

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money--Europe--History--To 1500.

Money.

Economic history--Medieval, 500-1500.

Economic history.

Economic history--Medieval.

Commerce--History--Medieval, 500-1500.

Commerce.

History.

Commerce--Medieval.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 646 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, Surrey, UK ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]

Summary:

"This volume consists of over twenty new essays written by friends, colleagues and pupils of Dr 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 the history of early medieval Europe"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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 : tenth-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, variant 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 ninth 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 tenth and eleventh centuries / Elina Screen

Islamic and Christian gold coins from Spanish mints found in England, mid-eleventh to mid-thirteenth centuries / Marion M. Archibald

PART IV. COINS AND COIN HOARDS IN CONTEXT

A seventh-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 885-9 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), Isle of Man / Kristin Bornholdt Collins, Allison Fox and James Graham-Campbell

Insular imitations of Æthelred II's long cross coinage / Joe Leighton and Andrew R. Woods

The English element in the 2012 Övide hoard, Eskelhem par., Gotland / Kenneth Jonsson

The Viking-age hoard of Linnakse : some observations / Ivar Leimus, Mauri Kiudsoo and Ülle Tamla.

Notes:

Includes index.

Festschrift for Dr Mark Blackburn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1409456684

9781409456681

OCLC:

885026241

Publisher Number:

99962424646