Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings

Carolingian Coinage and the Vikings
Author: Simon Coupland
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780860789918

This volume brings together for the first time Simon Coupland's series of significant articles on Carolingian coinage. The author draws out the economic and political implications of coin types and coin hoards from the reign of Charlemagne to the Edict of Pîtres in 864. This numismatic survey is complemented by other studies which use the evidence of coinage and contemporary texts to consider aspects of trade and power in the ninth century, particularly the impact of the Viking raids.

The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)

The Symbolic Language of Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Author: Ildar Garipzanov
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2008-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047433408

This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.

Coinage and Coin Use in Medieval Italy

Coinage and Coin Use in Medieval Italy
Author: Alessia Rovelli
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000947599

The volume gathers together seventeen articles dedicated to the monetary history of medieval Italy, most of them newly translated into English. The articles in the first section of the volume trace the development of monetisation in Italy from the Lombard period until the rise of the communes, taking Rome, Lazio, Tuscany, and several cities and regions in north-central Italy as case studies. The articles in the second section analyse different aspects of monetary production and circulation in Byzantine Italy, while the third gathers together studies on various aspects of Carolingian coinage: the transition from the Lombard system and the problem of furnishing an adequate supply of silver; mints and royal administration; and the activity and inactivity of mints operating at the edges of the Regnum Italiae. All of the articles share the author’s characteristic concern with setting the evidence from written sources against the wealth of new data emerging from recent archaeological research.

Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages

Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004383093

Reading Medieval Sources is an exciting new series which leads scholars and students into some of the most challenging and rewarding sources from the European Middle Ages, and introduces the most important approaches to understanding them. Written by an international team of twelve leading scholars, this volume Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages presents a set of fresh and insightful perspectives that demonstrate the rich potential of this source material to all scholars of medieval history and culture. It includes coverage of major developments in monetary history, set into their economic and political context, as well as innovative and interdisciplinary perspectives that address money and coinage in relation to archaeology, anthropology and medieval literature. Contributors are Nanouschka Myrberg Burström, Elizabeth Edwards, Gaspar Feliu, Anna Gannon, Richard Kelleher, Bill Maurer, Nick Mayhew, Rory Naismith, Philipp Robinson Rössner, Alessia Rovelli, Lucia Travaini, and Andrew Woods.

The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)

The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World (c.751-877)
Author: Ildar H. Garipzanov
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004166696

This book is not a conventional political narrative of Carolingian history shaped by narrative sources, capitularies, and charter material. It is structured, instead, by numismatic, diplomatic, liturgical, and iconographic sources and deals with political signs, images, and fixed formulas in them as interconnected elements in a symbolic language that was used in the indirect negotiation and maintenance of Carolingian authority. Building on the comprehensive analysis of royal liturgy, intitulature, iconography, and graphic signs and responding to recent interpretations of early medieval politics, this book offers a fresh view of Carolingian political culture and of corresponding roles that royal/imperial courts, larger monasteries, and human agents played there.

The Carolingian Economy

The Carolingian Economy
Author: Adriaan Verhulst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2002-10-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521004749

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Early Medieval Monetary History

Early Medieval Monetary History
Author: Martin Allen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351942522

Mark Blackburn was one of the leading scholars of the numismatics and monetary history of the British Isles and Scandinavia during the early medieval period. He published more than 200 books and articles on the subject, and was instrumental in building bridges between numismatics and associated disciplines, in fostering international communication and cooperation, and in establishing initiatives to record new coin finds. This memorial volume of essays commemorates Mark Blackburn’s considerable achievement and impact on the field, builds on his research and evaluates a vibrant period in the study of early medieval monetary history. Containing a broad range of high-quality research from both established figures and younger scholars, the essays in this volume maintain a tight focus on Europe in the early Middle Ages (6th-12th centuries), reflecting Mark’s primary research interests. In geographical terms the scope of the volume stretches from Spain to the Baltic, with a concentration of papers on the British Isles. As well as a fitting tribute to remarkable scholar, the essays in this collection constitute a major body of research which will be of long-term value to anyone with an interest in the history of early medieval Europe.

Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians

Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians
Author: Thomas F. X. Noble
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 506
Release: 2009-03-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780812241419

In eight- and ninth-century Byzantium there arose a heated controversy over religious art, known as the "Iconoclastic Controversy." Analyzing hundreds of pages of art-texts, laws, letters, and poems, this book examines the wider context of the debate by providing the first comprehensive study of the Western response to Byzantine iconoclasm.