To view prices and purchase online, please login or create an account now.



Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms, 757-865

Hardback

Main Details

Title Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms, 757-865
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Rory Naismith
SeriesCambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:370
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreBritish and Irish History
Coins, banknotes, medals and seals
ISBN/Barcode 9781107006621
ClassificationsDewey:737.4942
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 10 Tables, black and white; 2 Maps; 119 Halftones, unspecified; 28 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 6 October 2011
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 neighbours. Its nine chapters integrate historical and numismatic research to explore who made early medieval coinage, who used it and why. The currency emerges as a significant resource accessible across society and, through analysis of its production, circulation and use, the author shows that control over coinage could be a major asset. This control was guided as much by ideology as by economics and embraced several levels of power, from kings down to individual craftsmen. Thematic in approach, this innovative book offers an engaging, wide-ranging account of Anglo-Saxon coinage as a unique and revealing gauge for the interaction of society, economy and government.

Author Biography

Rory Naismith is a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge, working in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge and the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Reviews

"This is a well-crafted, rigorously researched book, supported by an extensive bibliography. Naismith uses all of the evidence available to explore the relationship of money and power in the Southern Kingdom in the century between the reign of Offa and the arrival of the Viking Great Army." -Tony Abramson, The Journal of British Studies