Religion and Money: Economy of salvation in the Middle Ages is a project based on interdisciplinary and international cooperation using material culture as evidence collected from museums in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Historical and literary sources form the basis for a study of the phenomenon Economy of Salvation. Linking documentary evidence with material culture in new and innovative ways lies at the root of this project.
The detailed program for the upcoming international conference in Winterthur, Switzerland is ready.
This international conference bring together specialists from all over Europe and the US with contributions in English, French and German.
Key-note speakers: Aden Kumler (Chicago), Matthias Untermann (Heidelberg) and Henrik Klackenberg (Stockholm).
Preparing for the international workshop in Winterthur in Switzerland 22-23 June the speakers from Scandinavia come together for a joint workshop on the 7 June.
Venue at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo.
Prosjektet Religion and Money: Economy of Salvation in the Middle Ages finansiert av Norges Forskningsråd er inne i avslutningsfasen. Flere bokutgivelser står for døren, Nanni og Gittes bok Divina Moneta er under utgivelse hos Routledge. Anette og Sveins bok om norske myntfunn 1050-1319 er i ferd med å leveres til Dreyer forlag. Arbeidet med boken The use of money in religious and devotional contexts som redigeres av Svein, Christoph, Håkon og Steinar begynner å nærme seg slutten.
Project member granted Ph.D.-post Eeva Jonsson is granted a position as doctorate fellow at Åbo University writing a dissertation on the subject "Fluctuations in the Import of Coins from the German Empire c. 950‒1145".
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A film focused around a public workshop for the Being Human National Festival of Humanities: 'Your Money or Your Life' shot at the Prior's Hall, Durham Cathedral November 2015. The workshop explored themes connected to salvation, monetary use, archaeological finds, stave churches and anthropological comparison to contemporary Tongan society.
See the video: Workshop Being Human Durham University
In cooperation with Swiss colleagues we invite to a European conference on coins and coin finds in churches. The purpose is to merge Scandinavian research with research in the Continental tradition, especially for the Alpine Region where the finds from church excavations are en par with the Scandinavian.
Medieval manuscript fragments are some of Norway’s most significant testimonies to medieval book history. Through analysis of a selection of the thousands of manuscript fragments kept in public collections. A project in Bergen is exploring the first centuries of book and scribal culture in Norway.
Alf Tore has made an extraordinary contribution to the project explaining liturgical documents through explanations and song.
Watch the video: A Book is Used.
Treasure in Heaven, Treasures on Earth: the secular world and material consumption in Western European Monasticism, c. 1050-c. 1250.
This three-day interdisciplinary conference took place at Hatfield College, Durham University, on Wednesday 21 st to Friday 23 rd September 2016. Inspired by work produced as part of the ‘Religion and Money: the Economy of Salvation in the Middle Ages’ project and kindly funded by the Cultural Historical Museum, University of Oslo, the conference explored monastic economies in the central medieval period in Western Europe. It was organised by Rosalind Green and Stephanie Britton, both third-year PhD candidates at Durham in the Department of History.
Spiritual and material Economies 1000-1350: Time, Devotion and Reform The international conference “Spiritual and material Economies 1000-1350: Time, Devotion and Reform”, organised by Giles took place at Durham 8-10 June as part of strand II in the project that seeks to explore aspects of a broader question: What money meant to the inhabitants of north-western Europe in the 11th to 13th century.
A round table discussion relating to the 1979 Sverre Fehn medieval exhibition in Museum of Cultural History, Oslo University. The participants all have first hand experience from working with this exhibition in the late 1970s. Time and place: Jun 13, 2016 01:00 PM - 04:00 PM, Museum of Cultural History, Fredriksgate 2
'Spiritual and Material Economies 1000-1350: Time, Devotion and Reform will bring together experts across a range of different disciplines (history, theology, liturgy, art history and numismatics), with a focus on northern and western Christendom of the High Middle Ages.
Conference in Durham 8-10 June 2016: Spiritual and Material Economies 1000-1350: Time, Devotion and Reform.
A workshop at Museum of Cultural History in Oslo will prepare an international conference in Switzerland in June 2017: Coin finds in churches - European perspective. The first day of the workshop is devoted to an open seminar.
Nordiska mynt och numismatiska framtider - Halvdagsseminarium 18 maj 2016 kl. 13-17. Institutionen för arkeologi och antikens kultur. Seminar arrangert av Nanouschka Myrberg Burström der flere prosjektmedlemmer holder innlegg.
Giles Gasper involved in conference in Rome: ‘ The Appliance of Science – Astronomy and the Calendar: Robert Grosseteste’s De sphaera and the Computus Correctorius ,’
I en ny bok om Helgenkongen St Olav i kunsten kan man lese om olavsikonografien på mynt i sen vikingtid og middelalder. Boken tar utgangspunkt i en konferanse om olavsikonografi i Erkebispegården i Trondheim i 2012. Boken er redigert av Øystein Ekroll og har bidrag fra blant annet Anne Lidén, Margrethe Stang, Caroline Serck-Hansen og på myntsiden Svein H Gullbekk.
In the Christian traditions Religious practice and the use of money can be traced back to the first century when the first generations of Christians made pecuniary offerings at the grave of Saint Peter and Saint Paul and in the catacombs in Rome.
Seminar: Professorboligen, UiO, 7 April 13:15-15:00
Treasure in Heaven, Treasure on Earth: The Secular World and Material Consumptionin Western European Monasticism c.1050-c.1250.
Call for papers: 1st June 2016
Conference: Sep 21, 2016 - Sep 23, 2016, Hatfield College, Durham University
Avisen Dagen i Norge har bevilget førstesiden og to siders oppslag til prosjektet. Overskriftene som brukes er 'Gravde frem ukjent kirkehistorie' (forsiden), 'Kristningen satte fart på pengesystemet' og 'Enkens skjerv ble modell for kvinnenes pengegaver'. En bredt anlagt og god fremstilling av prosjektet for et generelt publikum skrevet av journalist Tor Weibye.
Religion and Money: Economy of Salvation in the Middle Ages won a grant with the Norwegian Research Council in 2013. Since then quite a few people have been involved. Members of the core-group has met regularly at workshops, conferences, congresses and so forth. A few photographs provide telling insight into some of the activities we have been involved with.
Dr Sam Moorhead will visit the Religion and Money Research Group-Seminar, Museum of Cultural History in Oslo and talk about 'Metal detecting - how we save our archaeological heritage'. And he has promised to pay special attention to finds from religious contexts.
17 Marz 14:00
Round table session held at the XV International Numismatic Congress, Sicily, 22 September 2015. Coin finds in religious contexts open a significant number of questions concerning the conception and use of coins and money, in different geographical and temporal settings. Votive offerings, ritual minting and donations are but a few examples of how coins were, and still are, used as material mediators between humans and gods. In the Divina Moneta Round Table, the use of coins and money for religious purposes was discussed out from an understanding of coins’ particular material aspects (such as metal, size or iconography) in combination with their connotations in light of different socio-cultural phenomena (such as abundance, kingship or protection).
A fantastic number of events took place over eleven days from all corners of the country, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England. The richness of the activities for the public showcases the diversity, range and challenge of humanities research, and its essential importance in contemporary society. The Religion and Money: Economies of Salvation project took part in these festivities, with two events at Durham Cathedral.
Prosjektet Religion and Money: Economy of salvation in the Middle Ages finansieres gjennom Forskningsrådet. I den forbindelse er prosjektet en del av Prosjektbanken, "et pilotprosjekt som viser statistikk og informasjon om forskningsprosjekter finansiert av Forskningsrådet". For å lese mer om prosjektet i Prosjektbanken, se her.
Jo, universitetslektor John McNicol har tatt i bruk Minecraft i undervisningen av historieemnet «Oslo i middelalderen».
Eeva Jonsson, forsker og deltaker i prosjektet Religion and Money: Economy of salvation in the Middle Ages, holdt torsdag 19.11.15 foredraget "Från prästens guld till bondens koppar. Medeltida och efter-reformatoriska myntoffer i Västerås domkyrka och i Jomala kyrka, Åland” for Numismatiske klubben i Uppsala, som del av deres høstprogram.
At the upcoming International Numismatic Congress in Taormina, Sicily 21-25 September there are several lectures that are offsprings of the Religion and Money-project outside the Round-table session 'Divina Moneta: Coin Finds in Religious Contexts':
Från prästens guld till bondens koppar. Medeltida och efterreformatoriska myntoffer i Västerås domkyrka och i Jomala kyrka, Åland.
Anna Ölund, arkeolog vid Upplandsmuseet, talar över ämnet: Under kyrkgolven- vad finns där? onsdag 23 september kl. 18.15 i Upplandsmuseets hörsal. 80:e seminarium Early North European Seminar
The Exhibition that is part of the project's public outreach - Trust and Distrust - will be hosted by Museum of Cultural Museum in Oslo. The opening of the Exhibition is scheduled to spring 2017.
Project leader: Peter Bjerregaard Designer: Eilie Lindøe
Jens Christian Moesgaard foreleser over myntfunnene og geofysiske undersøkelser av ødekirkeplassene Ulv og Uldrup på Jylland. Forelesningen finner sted i kirkehuset i Hundslund torsdag den 3. september kl. 14.30-16.30.
XV International Numismatic Congress - Taormina, 21-25 September 2015.
The organizers in Taormina have planned to put the Round Table 'Divina Moneta' in the final programme of the XV International Numismatic Congress on Tuesday 22nd September in the morning from 9.00 to 13.30.
Giles was invited to present a paper in Honour of Richard Britnell and John Munro at this summer's Leeds Medieval Congress 7 July, and he presented on ‘Money and Church Reform: Metaphors of Salvation’
Svenska kyrkan har tagit fram ett tekniskt beskrivningslexikon över kyrkliga föremål. Lexikonets användningsområde är bland annat som hjälpmedel vid inventerings- och dokumentationsarbete i kyrkor. Innehållet baseras på Riksantikvarieämbetets gamla föremålsindexering och omfattar samtliga begrepp från deras databaser, men även ytterligare begrepp.
Religion and Money - et fællesnordisk forskningsinitiativ
Jens Christian Moesgaard foreleser om religion og penger ved Nationalmuseet i København 11. juni.
Olav Tveito kommer med en artikkel om 'Mynter i messen. Kirkefunnene som kilde til offerpraksis i middelalder og etter-reformatorisk tid' i Historisk Tidsskrift 3/2015.
Artikkelen drøfter kirkelig offerpraksis i norsk og skandinavisk kontekst, fra kristningstiden til etter-reformatorisk tid. Kirkefunnene, myntfunn under kirker, danner utgangspunkt for analysen, kombinert med skriftlig materiale.
The last seminar in strand I: Coin finds in Churches: a survey of the Central European finds by Benedikt Zäch; Purgatorium and money by Helen Foxhall-Forbes; Money in monastic writings by Giles Gasper; Archaeology meets salvation by Svein H Gullbekk and an etnographical movie from offerings in a Tonganesian church by Arne Perminow.
Confirmed speakers for the fourth open seminar in the series 'Religion and Money: Economy of Salvation in the Middle Ages', 3rd of June 2015.
The theme of the conference are challenges and good practices of digitization concerning objects’ physical dimensions and environmental conditions in which they are digitally documented.
Steinar is presenting the GIS-part of the project.
Alf Tore publiserte en stor innsiktartikkel i Bergens Tidende påskeaften der han redegjør for Olav Haraldssons (Olav den Hellige) hjemkomst til Norge og øya Selja i 1015. Med seg hadde han fire engelske biskoper og der begynte kristningsarbeid.
Steinar presented the project with a poster at The 43rd Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology conference – Siena 2015: “KEEP THE REVOLUTION GOING”.
The poster emphasized the mapping of finds in churches and the use of GIS-technology.
Bloggside har passert 1000 unike besøkende i løpet av påskehøytiden. Målingene begynte i september forrige år. November var den travleste måneden så langt. Uansett, det er vel betydelig flere enn det som vanligvis leser våre skriverier i tradisjonelle numismatiske, arkeologiske og historiske kanaler.
Vel blåst!
Giles reports from life in Strand II; this time on Gerald of Wales who combines the subjects of money-offerings and telling jokes.
Giles reports from life in Strand II; this week from a stay in the Alpine regions of Europe, more precise in the surroundings of Salzburg, Austria where he has been in contact with saints lives and the burden of sins (in the 11th and 12th century).
Giles reports from life in Strand II; on indexes and a twelfth century Irish bowman and his money-offerings.
Akkurat nå pågår en omfattande renovering av Skuttunge kyrka, som ligger ca 2 mil nord for Uppsala. Gulvet i skipet og sakristiet skal skiftes ut som følge av soppangrep. Arkeologer fra Upplandsmuseet gjennomfører utgravningene. I dag kunne prosjektleder Anna Ölund fortelle at gulvene var fjernet.
Interesserte kan følge utgravningene på ARKEOLOGIBLOGGEN.
Etter to år ved Arkeologisk seksjon og Myntkabinettet i Oslo, og sist to måneder full tid på vårt prosjekt har Terje vendt tilbake til Vitenskapsmuseet og magasinforvalterstilling.
In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to represent a process that incorporates all the actions performed and thoughts expressed in connection with a dying and dead person, from the preparatory pre-death stages to the final deposition of the corpse and the post-mortem stages of grief and commemoration.
Jens Christian Moesgaard publiserer omfattende katalog over myntfunn i Nordmandie i Nord-Frankrike: 'Les trésors monétaires médiévaux découverts en Haute-Normandie (754-1514)'. Utgitt i serien MONETA nr. 183, 308 pages ISBN 978-94-91384-51-6.
This project aimed to complement and improving the documentation of the medieval church ruins on St. Olofsholm, Hellvi parish, Gotland, by adding a third dimension. The ruins of two churches were excavated and documented during 2013 and 2014, but the documentation was conducted from a 2D perspective. Using Image-Based Modelling techniques, based on a series of some 800 pictures taken after the excavation, it was possible to generate a model of the site and document it in 3D.