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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 October 2011
      06 October 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511902642
      9781107006621
      9781107669697
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511902642
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 370 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 370 Pages
      • Subjects:
      British History 1066-1450, History, British History Before 1066
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (80)
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    Subjects:
    British History 1066-1450, History, British History Before 1066
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series (80)
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    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.

    Awards

    Winner of the 2013 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists First Book Prize

    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

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