Coinage in the Northumbrian landscape and economy, c.575-c.867 /
"This book presents the author's digitization of Pirie's ... corpus of 9th-century Northumbrian 'stycas.' This database, enhanced by data from elsewhere, is compared by location with the artefactual database known as VASLE (created at the University of York, 2008) to demonst...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
BAR Publishing,
2018.
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| Series: | BAR British series ;
641. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book presents the author's digitization of Pirie's ... corpus of 9th-century Northumbrian 'stycas.' This database, enhanced by data from elsewhere, is compared by location with the artefactual database known as VASLE (created at the University of York, 2008) to demonstrate that the co-occurrence of coins and portable artefacts defines monetary evolution in Northumbria. Additionally, the author presents a new periodization and reveals the previously disparaged gold shillings of York to have been issued by Bishop Paulinus, a disruptive finding chronologically, with wider consequences. Northumbria benefited increasingly, both monetarily and fiscally, as the face value of coins fell. Other conclusions include the idea that Northumbrian coin production was erratic; that the Yorkshire Wolds were more highly monetized than the surrounding lowlands, indicating a more enterprising culture; that styca hoards represent episcopal expropriations; and that there were significant changes in settlement and economy in the central lowlands. This work demonstrates that monetization reflected northern independence, innovation and enterprise."--Back cover (page 4 of cover). |
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| Item Description: | "With additional material online"--Front cover. "Databases and datasets supporting this study are available to download from www.barpublishing.com/additional-downloads.html ."--Page viii. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxi, 207 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-197) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781407323282 1407323288 9781407316536 1407316532 |
| DOI: | 10.30861/9781407316536 |