Early Medieval Monetary History: Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn

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Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 List of Colour Plates......Page 10 List of Figures......Page 12 List of Tables......Page 18 Abbreviations......Page 22 Foreword......Page 28 Acknowledgement......Page 30 List of Contributors......Page 32 1 Introduction: Mark Blackburn and Early Medieval Monetary History......Page 36 PART I: PROGRESS IN EARLY MEDIEVAL MONETARY HISTORY......Page 46 2 Coins and Currency in Viking England, AD 865–954......Page 48 3 Prelude to Reform: Tenth-Century English Coinage in Perspective......Page 74 4 Coinage and Currency Under William I and William II......Page 120 PART II: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES......Page 148 5 XPICTIANA RELIGIO and the Tomb of Christ......Page 150 6 The Portrait Coinage of Charlemagne......Page 180 7 M for Mark: The Iconography of Series M, Variants and the Agnus Dei......Page 192 8 The Stylistic Structure of Edward the Confessor’s Coinage......Page 208 9 Bovo Soldare: A Sacred Cow of Spanish Economic History Re-evaluated......Page 222 PART III: USE AND CIRCULATION OF CURRENCY......Page 240 10 Byzantine Coins in Early Medieval Britain: A Byzantinist’s Assessment......Page 242 11 Thrymsas and Sceattas and the Balance of Payments......Page 278 12 The Use of Coin in the Carolingian Empire in the Ninth Century......Page 292 13 Monetary Activity in Viking-Age Ireland: The Evidence of the Single-Finds......Page 330 14 Vestfold: A Monetary Perspective on the Viking Age......Page 366 15 Currency Conversion: Coins, Christianity and Norwegian Society in the Late Tenth and Eleventh Centuries......Page 384 16 Islamic and Christian Gold Coins from Spanish Mints Found in England, Mid-Eleventh to Mid-Thirteenth Centuries......Page 412 PART IV : COINS AND COIN HOARDS IN CONTEXT......Page 440 17 A Seventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Solidus Pendant of the Cross-on-Steps Type Found in Kent......Page 442 18 A Small Hoard of Burgred Pennies from Banbury Castle, Oxfordshire......Page 452 19 The 1699 Port Glasgow Hoard......Page 456 20 The Viking Invasions 885–889 and the Activity of the Mint of Rouen......Page 470 21 The Swordless St Peter Coinage of York, c.905–c.919......Page 502 22 The 2003 Glenfaba Hoard (c.1030), Isle of Man......Page 514 23 Insular Imitations of Æthelred II ’s Long Cross Coinage......Page 558 24 The English Element in the 2012 Övide Hoard, Eskelhelm par., Gotland......Page 588 25 The Viking-Age Hoard of Linnakse: Some Observations......Page 614 Index......Page 666