Medieval European Coinage: Volume 8, Britain and Ireland C.400-1066

Informationen zum Autor Dr Rory Naismith is Lecturer in Early Medieval British History at King's College London and formerly a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He has published extensively on the history of early medieval Britain and Europe, particularly from an economic and monetary perspective. Previous books include The Coinage of Southern England, 796–865 (2011) and Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms 757–865 (Cambridge, 2012), winner of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Best First Book Prize 2013. Klappentext An authoritative synthesis of early medieval British and Irish coinage, supported by the catalogue of a world-class collection. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. From Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England; 3. Early Anglo-Saxon gold coinage; 4. The early silver pennies; 5. The kingdom of Northumbria; 6. The 'Mercian supremacy' in the age of Offa and Coenwulf; 7. The rise of Wessex in southern England; 8. The reign of Alfred the Great; 9. England from Edward the Elder to Edgar's reform; 10. The late Anglo-Saxon coinage; 11. The Anglo-Viking coinages; 12. Wales and Scotland; 13. The Isle of Man and 'Irish Sea' coinages; 14. Ireland to 1170; Appendices; Bibliography; Catalogue; Concordances; Indexes.

About the author

Dr Rory Naismith is Lecturer in Early Medieval British History at King's College London and formerly a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. He has published extensively on the history of early medieval Britain and Europe, particularly from an economic and monetary perspective. Previous books include The Coinage of Southern England, 796–865 (2011) and Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms 757–865 (Cambridge, 2012), winner of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists Best First Book Prize 2013.

Product details

• Authors: Rory Naismith, Naismith Rory
• Assisted by: Rory Naismith (Editor), Elina Screen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2015
• EAN: 9780521260169
• ISBN: 978-0-521-26016-9
• No. of pages: 828
• Series: Medieval European Coinage; Medieval European Coinage; Medieval European Coinage, Ser
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