Money and power in Anglo-Saxon England : the southern English kingdoms, 757-865 /
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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ;
4th ser., 80. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.