Reading Medieval European Coins
Author : Ralph S. Walker
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Coins, Medieval
ISBN : 9780915018550
Author : Ralph S. Walker
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Coins, Medieval
ISBN : 9780915018550
Author : Philip Grierson
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 39,33 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Author : Robert A. Levinson
Publisher : Coin & Currency Institute
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Coinage
ISBN : 0871846004
Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9789004372467
Money and Coinage in the Middle Ages presents an original and valuable set of studies into aspects of a critical but challenging category of material.
Author : Peter Spufford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521375900
This is a full-scale study that explores every aspect of money in Europe and the Middle Ages.
Author : Lucia Travaini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 37,14 MB
Release : 2022-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1000519848
The Thirty Pieces of Silver: Coin Relics in Medieval and Modern Europe discusses many interconnected topics relating to the most perfidious monetary transaction in history: the betrayal of Jesus by Judas for thirty pieces of silver. According to medieval legend, these coins had existed since the time of Abraham’s father and had been used in many transactions recorded in the Bible. This book documents fifty specimens of coins which were venerated as holy relics in medieval and modern churches and monasteries of Europe, from Valencia to Uppsala. Most of these relics are ancient Greek silver coins in origin mounted in precious reliquaries or used for the distribution of their wax imprints believed to have healing powers. Drawing from a wide range of historical sources, from hagiography to numismatics, this book will appeal to students and academics researching Late Antique, Medieval, and Early Modern History, Theology, as well as all those interested in the function of relics throughout Christendom. The Thirty Pieces of Silver is a study that invites meditation on the highly symbolic and powerful role of money through coins which were the price, value, and measure of Christ and which, despite being the most abject objects, managed to become relics.
Author : Marshall Faintich
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,66 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780786469154
The coins of ancient and medieval Europe provide unique insights into the economic and political history of their period. In a time when few members of the population could read or write, the symbols depicted on coins offered a medium for communication, propaganda, and historical archiving. This work hypothesizes that astronomical symbols on ancient and medieval coins were often used as a way to record actual celestial events. The author provides more than 550 figures and line drawings of coins, maps, and astronomical events to illustrate this hypothesis. In addition, several appendices evaluate the historical accuracy of ancient and medieval coinage and offer additional examples not included in the main text.
Author : William R. Day, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1165 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107568747
This volume of Medieval European Coinage is the first comprehensive survey of the coinage of north Italy c.950-1500, bringing the latest research to an international audience. It provides an authoritative and up-to-date account of the coinages of Piedmont, Liguria, Lombardy and the greater Veneto, which have never been studied together in such detail on a broad regional basis. The volume reveals for the first time the wider trends that shaped the coinages of the region and offers new syntheses of the monetary history of the individual cities. It includes detailed appendices, such as a list of coin hoards, indices and a glossary, as well as a fully illustrated catalogue of the north Italian coins, including those of Genoa, Milan and Venice, in the unrivalled collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, largely formed by Professor Philip Grierson (1910-2006).
Author : Susan Solway
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,31 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art and history
ISBN : 9782503543444
Medieval Coins and Seals: Constructing Identity, Signifying Power showcases these objects as intrinsic and highly significant aspects of medieval visual culture, and contributes to an understanding of the many ways in which they functioned as conveyors of meaning in Western European, Islamic, and Byzantine cultures from the fifth to the fifteenth century. The essays presented here, by art historians, numismatists, sigillographers, and historians on a wide variety of coins and seals, afford fresh insight into these tantalizing relics of medieval art and the vibrant cultural roles they played at the time of their creation. Through their images and inscriptions, they conveyed complex cultural attitudes by means of sophisticated visual strategies carefully constructed to further the subjective agendas of rulers and -- in the case of seals -- of aristocrats, ordinary individuals, towns, corporations, and government officials. The messages conveyed by these tightly controlled objects were, above all, ones of authority, identity, and legitimacy, with goals or subtexts that included the politics of self- presentation; the construction of personal, civic, national and cultural identity; the advertisement of dynastic succession; and much more. As forceful modes of visual discourse designed to carry calculated, at times propagandistic, communications to broadly dispersed audiences, coins and seals actively served during these centuries as sociocultural agents that helped mold public opinion (as they had in antiquity), and thereby shaped the medieval world.
Author : Martin R. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 11,62 MB
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107014948
A definitive study of coin production in medieval England, tracing the development, significance and wider context of mints and money.