Money and its use in the Middle Ages

Forskergruppe på mynt- og pengehistorie i vikingtid og middelalder.

Om gruppen

Forskergruppens overordnede formål er å formulere og undersøke nye problemstillinger for å forstå penger og synet på penger og oppfatninger av verdi, standarder og ritualer som involverer penger og verdi.
Murray Andrews will join the research group in capacity as Associate Professor at The Coin Cabinet in the Museum of Cultural History from 1 August 2022.

Prosjekter og aktivitetsmål

WP1: Human Sacrifice and Values

Under NFR-prosjekt (FRIPRO): Human Sacrifice and Values (2018-2022, PI Rane Willerslev og Svein H Gullbekk) er følgende studier under arbeid/publisering:

The Economy of Sacrifice: Christ, Coins and the Eucharist in the Middle Ages, S.H. Gullbekk and M.Wangsgaard Jürgensen, in: Human Sacrifice and Value. Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence, edited by Matthew Walsh, Sean O’Neill, Marianne Moen, Svein H Gullbekk, Routledge [forthcoming]

Measuring trust: Attitudes towards money in eleventh century Norway S.H. Gullbekk, Sean O’Neill og Matthew J. Walsh (work in progress)

Cash on legs – Cattle as currency and pecunial sacrifices, S.H. Gullbekk, M. J. Walsh and M. Moen, in: Control. A Story about Animal/Human Domestication, edited by Gro B. Ween and Michael Lundblad [Oslo: Pax forlag, in press]

Standardization of ritual offerings: The Eucharist, human sacrifice and monetization v/S.H. Gullbekk, M.J. Walsh and M. Moen, in: Medieval standardization in the North, edited by L.C. Engh, H.-J. Orning og S.H. Gullbekk, [Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcomming]

WP2: Monetisation in medieval Northern Europe

Stipendiat Mika Boros, Monetisation at the frontiers of medieval Europe. The introduction of local coinage outside the borders of the Holy Roman Empire, Supervicors S.H. Gullbekk, Hans Jacob Orning and Mateusz Bogucki, from 1 September 2021.

Workshop, 16-17 March 2022, Oslo: And then there was coin - Beginnings of coinage in medieval Europe with empasis on Comparative perspectives on money and its use and monetization in Austria, Poland and Norway in the 11th and 12th century v/Mika Boros.

International Numismatic Congress (INC), Warzaw 11-16 Sept 2022, Organizer of session: Viking Age and Medieval Monetisation – Scandinavian and theoretical perspectives, S.H.Gullbekk, J.A.Risvaag, J.C.Moesgaard, N.M.Burström, F. Ehrensten, L.E. Ramberg, C.Kilger, M.Paulsen. G.Ingvardsen.

WP3: Comparative studies of numismatics and monetary history

I prosjektet 'Symbolic Resources and Political Structures on the Periphery: Legitimization of the Elites in Poland and Norway, c. 1000-1300' samarbeider S.H.Gullbekk og M.Bogucki om bidraget "Language of Power through Coinage in 11th-12th century Poland and Norway", et komparativt studium.

Stipendiat Mika Boros gjennomfører et studium der komparative metoder vil stå sentralt i analyser av den tidlige utviklingen av utmynting og myntbruk kommer til uttrykk i Østerriket, Polen og Norge.

Religion and Money in the Middle Ages – Routledge series

The series explores the connections between two of the most dominant aspects of medieval society and culture: religion and money. Both are ubiquitous throughout the Middle Ages, and both are expressed through a wide variety of media, from the textual to the material. In this light, the series recognises the importance of multi-disciplinary perspectives, and welcomes joint as well as individual authorship and editorship.

Vol. 1: G.E.M. Gasper and S.H. Gullbekk, Money and the Church in Northern Europe 1000-1200: Practice, Morality and Thought, Farnham: Ashgate 2015.
Vol. 2: Nanouschka Myrberg Burström and Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson (eds.), Divina Moneta: coin finds in religious contexts, New York – Oxford; Routledge 2017
Vol. 3: S.H. Gullbekk, C. Kilger, H. Roland and S. Kristensen, (eds.), Coins in Churches. Archaeology, Money and Religious Devotion in Medieval Northern Europe, London and New York: Routledge 2021 ISBN 9780367557065
Vol. 4: Lucia Travaini, The Thirty Pieces of Silver. Coin-relics in medieval and modern Europe, Routledge 2022, 308 pp. ISBN 9780367688028

Series editor: S.H. Gullbekk

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