Medieval European Coinage: Volume 1, the Early Middle Ages (5th-10th Centuries) (Revised)
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This, the first volume of Medieval European Coinage, surveys the coinage of Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century to the emergence of recognizable 'national' political units in the tenth. It starts with the Vandals, Visigoths, Burgundians and other Germanic invaders of the Empire, whose coins were modelled on contemporary issues of the Western or Eastern emperors. The coinage of the Franks is followed from early Merovingian times through to the establishment and subsequent fragmentation of the Carolingian empire. Italy is represented by the coinages of the Ostrogoths, Lombards, Carolingians and popes down to the Ottoman conquest in the mid-tenth century. The coinage of the Anglo-Saxons is traced from the introduction of minting in the early seventh century to the emergence of a united kingdom during the first half of the tenth century, including the aberrant coinages of Northumbria and the Anglo-Viking coinages of the Danelaw.
Product Details
Price
$167.90
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publish Date
July 02, 2007
Pages
704
Dimensions
7.44 X 9.69 X 1.41 inches | 2.72 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780521031776
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Philip Grierson (1910-2006) was a British historian, numismatist, and Professor of Numismatics at Cambridge University, as well as a fellow of Gonville and Caius College.
Mark Blackburn has collected rare Polynesian artifacts for over 40 years. He owns Mauna Kea Gallery in Kamuela, on the big island, Hawaii.