The twelve papers that constitute "Silver Economy of the Viking Age" combine the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, history and numismatics to provide broad perspectives over, and specific insights into, the many different silver economies that can be shown to have existed during the Viking Age in north-western Europe. These papers range in scope from general surveys and provocative discussions to detailed presentations of, for example, the development of coinage in Southern Scandinavia and in Normandy, and Oriental-Scandinavian connections as manifested by silver rings and weight systems. Amongst the varying approaches to the different sorts of silver in circulation - rings and other ornaments, ingots, hack-silver and coins - there is also a detailed study of the use of gold in England during the later Anglo-Saxon period, together with a comprehensive inventory of the finds. "Silver Economy of the Viking Age" provides an indispensable and stimulating guide to current thinking on economic structures and monetary development in north-western Europe during the early Middle Ages.
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978-1-84472-084-2 (9781844720842)
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James Graham-Campbell is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Archaeology, after recently retiring from the Institute of Archaeology, having worked at University College London since 1973. He has specialised in the study of Viking-age silver hoards and brooches, and early medieval Insular metalwork. Gareth Williams has been Curator of Early Medieval Coinage at the British Museum since 1996. His research interests are focussed on the history and archaeology of early medieval Britain and Scandinavia, and particularly on interdisciplinary approaches to the study of coinage in its broader context.
Preface; Regions Around the North Sea with a Monetized Economy in the Pre-Viking and Viking Ages; D.M.Metcalf; South Scandinavian Coinage in the 9th Century; B.Malmer; Hedeby and its Hinterland: a Local Numismatic Region; R.Wiechmann; The Evidence of Pecking in the Cuerdale Hoard; M.M.Archibald; Gold in England in the Later Anglo-Saxon Period; M.Blackburn; A Survey of Coin Production and Currency in Normandy, 854-945; J.C.Moesgaard/i>; Viking Economies: Evidence from the Silver Hoards; M.Gaimster/i>; Oriental-Scandinavian Contacts on the Volga: Silver Rings and Weight Systems; B.Hrdh; The Form and Structure of Viking-age Silver Hoards: The Evidence from Ireland; J.Sheehan; Trade and Exchange across Frontiers; S.Kruse; Kingship, Christianity and Coinage: Monetary and Political Perspectives on Silver Economy in the Viking Age; G.Williams; Reflections on 'Silver Economy in the Viking Age'; J.Graham-Campbell; Index.
