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Format: 1 online resource (xxi, 901 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 1-316-54738-8 , 1-139-03137-6

Series Statement: Medieval European coinage ; volume 8

Content: This volume of Medieval European Coinage traces the coinage and monetary history of Britain and Ireland in the early Middle Ages, offering the first major single-volume treatment of the subject in decades. It examines the period from the end of the Roman province of Britain in the fifth century to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169-71. The volume re-evaluates the complex seventh- and eighth-century English coinages, follows the evolution of the Anglo-Saxon coinage into one of the most sophisticated monetary systems in medieval Europe, and also covers the coins issued by Viking settlers in parts of England and Ireland. Bringing recent advances in historical and numismatic research to a wider audience, this landmark volume is supported by one of the most complete catalogues of the period illustrating the world-class collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 May 2017). , Cover -- Half title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of plates -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- Note on spelling -- List of abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- (a) Historical overview -- (b) General features of the coinage -- (c) From late antiquity to the Middle Ages: British coinage in its European setting -- (d) Moneyers and mint-places -- (e) Cycles of debasement -- (f) Money, coinage and bullion -- 2 From Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) General features of the coinage -- (d) The end of Roman coinage in Britain: the fifth-century hoards -- (e) Clipped siliquae and the question of fifth-century continuity -- (f) Gold and the continent (c. 450-580) -- (g) Eastern contacts and the problem of Byzantine copper-alloy coinage -- (h) Re-use of Roman coin -- 3 Early Anglo-Saxon gold coinage -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) Merovingian coinage in England from c. 580 -- (d) Early Anglo-Saxon gold coinage (c. 600-75) -- (e) Chronology -- (f) Social, economic and political context -- 4 The early silver pennies -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) Structure of the coinage -- (d) Chronology -- (e) Continental pennies -- (f) English pennies: the Primary coinage -- (g) English pennies: the Secondary coinage -- (h) Social, economic and political interpretation -- 5 The kingdom of Northumbria -- (a) Historical introducton -- (b) Literature -- (c) General features of the coinage -- (d) Early gold and silver coins -- (e) The reign of Eadberht (737-58) -- (f) The later eighth century (758-810) -- (g) The ninth century -- 6 The 'Mercian supremacy' in the age of Offa and Coenwulf -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) The age of Offa (c. 750-96) -- (d) The age of Coenwulf (796-825). , 7 The rise of Wessex in southern England -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) General features of the coinage -- (d) The age of Ecgberht and Æthelwulf (825-c. 854) -- (e) The Inscribed Cross and related coinages of Wessex (c. 854-65) -- (f) The Lunettes coinage of Mercia and Wessex (c. 854-75) -- (g) East Anglia (c. 827-80) -- 8 The reign of Alfred the Great -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) General features of the coinage -- (d) Reform and recoinage: Cross and Lozenge and related issues (c. 875-80) -- (e) The Horizontal/Two-Line and related coinages (c. 880-99) -- (f) 'Special' coinages -- 9 England from Edward the Elder to Edgar's reform -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) General features of the coinage -- (d) Typology -- (e) Hoards and single-finds -- (f) Regionalisation and royal control -- (g) Mint-places -- (h) Metrology and fineness -- (i) Edward the Elder (899-924) -- (j) æthelstan (924-39) -- (k) Edmund (939-46) -- (l) Eadred (946-55) -- (m) Eadwig (955-9) -- (n) Edgar (959-early 970s) -- 10 The late Anglo-Saxon coinage -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) General features of the coinage -- (d) Relative chronology: the order of types -- (e) Coinage and recoinage -- (f) Mint administration -- (g) Metrology and fineness -- (h) Tribute payments and the northern hoards -- (i) The reform coinage (early 970s-c. 980) -- (j) Æthelred II (978-1016) -- (k) Cnut and his sons (1016-42) -- (l) Edward the Confessor and Harold II (1042-66) -- 11 The Anglo-Viking coinages -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) Bullion and coinage -- (d) Minting, kingship and authority in Viking England -- (e) Hoards and single-finds: towards a monetary economy in Viking England -- (f) Prelude: Viking sites and hoards in England (c. 860-80). , (g) Imitative phase (c. 880-95 or later) -- (h) St Edmund Memorial coinage -- (i) The Anglo-Viking kingdom of Northumbria -- (j) The east midlands -- 12 Wales and Scotland -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) General features -- (c) Wales to c. 1087 -- (d) Scotland to c. 1136 -- 13 The Isle of Man and 'Irish Sea' coinages -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) Coinage and bullion on the Isle of Man -- (d) Minting on the Isle of Man (c. 1025-65?) -- (e) Other 'Irish Sea area' imitations -- 14 Ireland to 1170 (with Andrew Woods) -- (a) Historical introduction -- (b) Literature -- (c) Coinage and bullion in Viking-Age Ireland -- (d) Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage of Dublin -- (e) Hiberno-Scandinavian coinage from outside Dublin? -- Appendices -- 1 Mints in Britain and Ireland, c. 600-1066 -- (a) Mints in England -- (b) Mints in Ireland and the Irish Sea area -- 2 Denominations and units of account -- (a) England -- (b) Ireland -- (c) Wales -- 3 Coin legends and epigraphy -- (a) Elements of early medieval coin inscriptions in Britain and Ireland -- (b) Observations on Anglo-Saxon numismatic epigraphy -- 4 Glossary of numismatic and other terms -- Bibliography -- Catalogue -- Collectors, dealers and donors -- (a) Formation of the collection -- (b) List of collectors, dealers and donors represented in the catalogue -- Arrangement of the catalogue -- Plates 1-114 -- Concordances -- Indexes -- Index of moneyers represented in the catalogue -- General index -- Index of hoards and other finds represented in the catalogue -- (a) Hoards -- (b) Single-finds and productive sites.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-521-26016-7

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139031370