Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

The Southern English Kingdoms, 757–865

Rory Naismith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

370 Seiten

2011
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-00662-1 (ISBN)

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This groundbreaking study of coinage in early medieval England is the first to take account of the very significant additions to the corpus of southern English coins discovered in recent years and to situate this evidence within the wider historical context of Anglo-Saxon England and its continental neighbours. Its nine chapters integrate historical and numismatic research to explore who made early medieval coinage, who used it and why. The currency emerges as a significant resource accessible across society and, through analysis of its production, circulation and use, the author shows that control over coinage could be a major asset. This control was guided as much by ideology as by economics and embraced several levels of power, from kings down to individual craftsmen. Thematic in approach, this innovative book offers an engaging, wide-ranging account of Anglo-Saxon coinage as a unique and revealing gauge for the interaction of society, economy and government.

Rory Naismith is a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, working in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge and the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

1. Introduction; 2. Money in its political context; 3. Looking at coinage: iconography and inscriptions; 4. Authority and minting I: the King; 5. Authority and minting II: mints, die-cutters and moneyers; 6. Value judgements: weight and fineness; 7. Production of coinage; 8. The circulation of coinage; 9. The nature of coin-use in the early Middle Ages; 10. Conclusion.

Reihe/Serie	Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Zusatzinfo	10 Tables, black and white; 2 Maps; 119 Halftones, unspecified; 28 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	660 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-107-00662-7 / 1107006627
ISBN-13	978-1-107-00662-1 / 9781107006621
Zustand	Neuware