Divina moneta : coins in religion and ritual / edited by Nanouschka Myrberg Burström and Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burström, Nanouschka Myrberg, editor.

Ingvardson, Gitte Tarnow, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Religion and money in the Middle Ages

Religion and money in the Middle Ages ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coins, Medieval--History.

Coins, Medieval.

Money--Europe--Religious aspects.

Money.

Coins--Europe--History.

Coins.

Ritual--Europe--History.

Ritual.

Superstition--Europe--History.

Superstition.

Coins, European--History.

Coins, European.

Coins, Roman--History.

Coins, Roman.

Money--Religious aspects.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 257 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Coins in religion and ritual

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Contents:

Money in rituals and practice

Death by deposition?: Coins and ritual in the late Iron Age and early Roman transition in northern Gaul / David Wigg-Wolf

The impact of coinage on ritual offerings during the late Iron Age (c. 250-25/15 bc) / Michael Nick

Coins and baptism in late antiquity: written sources and numismatic evidence

Reconsidered / Claudia Perassi

Pilgrims, pennies and the ploughzone: folded coins in medieval Britain / Richard Kelleher

Why money does grow on trees: the British coin-tree custom / Ceri Houlbrook

Coins as secular and sacred objects

Coins as non-coins: the use and meaning of roman coins in religious contexts outside the empire / Helle W. Horsnæs

Firmly I believe and truly: religious iconography on early Anglo-Saxon coins / Anna Gannon

Pecuniary profanities?: Money, Christianity and demonstrative giving in the early Middle Ages / Rory Naismith

Coins and the church in medieval England: votive and economic functions of money in religious contexts / Martin Allen

Sacra moneta: divinity, purity, miracles and powers / Lucia Travaini

The value and worth of offering

Worthless?: the practice of depositing counterfeit coins in Roman votive contexts / Fleur Kemmers

Scandinavian women in search of salvation: women's use of money in religion and

Devotional practice / Svein H. Gullbekk

A cheap salvation?: Post-Reformation offerings in Finnish churches / Frida Ehrnsten.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Divina moneta.

ISBN:

9781472485922

1472485920

OCLC:

978852845

Publisher Number:

99974884260