Medieval History
- Sir Frank Stenton (1880?1967), The Anglo-saxon Coinage And The Historian
Dr Rory Naismith writes: Sir Frank Stentonwas professor of history at the University of Reading, and a leading scholar of Anglo-Saxon history in the twentieth century. He is best known as the author of Anglo-Saxon England, still widely regarded as the...
- Final Congratulations Of 2012
Hoping that all our readers are enjoying the holiday season, here's a final round-up of good news from the ASNC department: Dr Rory Naismith, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in ASNC, has been awarded the 2012 Jan H. Nordbø scholarship and medal...
- Jersey Coin Hoard
The discovery of a huge hoard of Gaulish and Roman coins in Jersey has hit the headlines recently. An interesting overview of the hoard and its significance is given by ASNC alumna Carly Hilts in Current Archaeology. Further press coverage can be found...
- Dr Mark Blackburn On Radio 4 Tomorrow
Dr Rory Naismith writes: On Tuesday 6th December, Dr Mark Blackburn, keeper of coins and medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum and reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, was interviewed for Radio 4's programme iPM. His discussion...
- Michael Hendy, Byzantinist, Obituary
The Times carried an obituary on 12 June 2008 for our late Fellow Michael Hendy (1942?2008), economic historian and expert on the coinage of Byzantium, who died of a heart attack on 13 May 2008, aged 66, from which the following extracts are taken. ?Michael...
Medieval History
Anglo-Saxon Coinage c. 600 - 1066
It never rains but it pours ... with good news.
Congratulations to Dr Rory Naismith, who has just been awarded a three-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, to work on Anglo-Saxon coinage in the period c. 600 - 1066. Rory outlines his research project here:
This project is aimed at the preparation of a new volume in the series Medieval European Coinage, published by Cambridge University Press and inaugurated ? with support from the Leverhulme Trust - in the early 1980s by Professor Philip Grierson (1910?2006) and his first research assistant Mark Blackburn (1953?2011). Volumes so far published have dealt with early medieval Europe as a whole, along with parts of Spain and Italy. My own volume will be focused on England in the period c. 600?1066. It will contain a fully illustrated catalogue of some 2,500 coins in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, as well as a new commentary and introduction. The gold and silver coins of these centuries illustrate the slow metamorphosis from sub-Roman gold shillings, made when Christianity was freshly arrived in England, to the famously sophisticated late Anglo-Saxon coinage, one of the most impressive monetary systems in tenth- and eleventh-century Europe. They show the development of kingship, Christian culture and a dynamic economy, often more vividly than any other source. The coins therefore constitute a resource of critical importance to many branches of scholarship, including archaeology and history as well as numismatics. My goal is to provide a fresh and authoritative survey of the full range of Anglo-Saxon coinage, embracing new research and innovative approaches, as well as the impact of numerous new metal-detected finds. It will be the first survey of the whole period to be published in several decades, and the first in more than a century accompanied by such a broad and representative collection.
- Sir Frank Stenton (1880?1967), The Anglo-saxon Coinage And The Historian
Dr Rory Naismith writes: Sir Frank Stentonwas professor of history at the University of Reading, and a leading scholar of Anglo-Saxon history in the twentieth century. He is best known as the author of Anglo-Saxon England, still widely regarded as the...
- Final Congratulations Of 2012
Hoping that all our readers are enjoying the holiday season, here's a final round-up of good news from the ASNC department: Dr Rory Naismith, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in ASNC, has been awarded the 2012 Jan H. Nordbø scholarship and medal...
- Jersey Coin Hoard
The discovery of a huge hoard of Gaulish and Roman coins in Jersey has hit the headlines recently. An interesting overview of the hoard and its significance is given by ASNC alumna Carly Hilts in Current Archaeology. Further press coverage can be found...
- Dr Mark Blackburn On Radio 4 Tomorrow
Dr Rory Naismith writes: On Tuesday 6th December, Dr Mark Blackburn, keeper of coins and medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum and reader in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, was interviewed for Radio 4's programme iPM. His discussion...
- Michael Hendy, Byzantinist, Obituary
The Times carried an obituary on 12 June 2008 for our late Fellow Michael Hendy (1942?2008), economic historian and expert on the coinage of Byzantium, who died of a heart attack on 13 May 2008, aged 66, from which the following extracts are taken. ?Michael...