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Divina Moneta: Coins in Religion and Ritual: Religion and Money in the Middle Ages

Editat de Nanouschka Myrberg Burström, Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2020
This edited collection analyses the phenomenon of coin use for religious and ritual purposes in different cultures and across different periods of time. It proposes an engagement with the theory and interpretation of the ‘material turn’ with numismatic evidence, and an evidence-based series of discussions to offer a fuller, richer and fresh account of coin use in ritual contexts. No extensive publication has previously foregrounded coins in such a model, despite the fact that coins constitute an integrated part of the material culture of most societies today and of many in the past. Here, interdisciplinary discussions are organised around three themes: coin deposit and ritual practice, the coin as economic object and divine mediator, and the value and meaning of coin offering. Although focusing on the medieval period in Western Europe, the book includes instructive cases from the Roman period until today. The collection brings together well-established and emerging scholars from archaeology, art history, ethnology, history and numismatics, and great weight is given to material evidence which can complement and contradict the scarce written sources.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367593971
ISBN-10: 0367593971
Pagini: 276
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Religion and Money in the Middle Ages

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Faith and Ritual Materialised: Coin Finds in Religious Contexts  Nanouschka Myrberg Burström  Part I: Money in Rituals and Practice  1. Death by Deposition?: Coins and Ritual in the Late Iron Age and Early Roman Transition in Northern Gaul  David Wigg-Wolf  2. The Impact of Coinage on Ritual Offerings During the Late Iron Age (c. 250–25/15 BC)  Michael Nick  3. Coins and Baptism in Late Antiquity: Written Sources and Numismatic Evidence Reconsidered  Claudia Perassi  4. Pilgrims, Pennies and the Ploughzone: Folded Coins in Medieval Britain  Richard Kelleher  5. Why Money Does Grow on Trees: The British Coin-Tree Custom  Ceri Houlbrook  Part II: Coins as Secular and Sacred Objects  6. Coins as Non-Coins: The Use and Meaning of Roman Coins in Religious Contexts Outside the Empire  Helle W. Horsnæs  7. Firmly I Believe and Truly: Religious Iconography on Early Anglo-Saxon Coins  Anna Gannon  8. Pecuniary Profanities?: Money, Christianity and Demonstrative Giving in the Early Middle Ages  Rory Naismith  9. Coins and the Church in Medieval England: Votive and Economic Functions of Money in Religious Contexts  Martin Allen  10. Sacra Moneta: Divinity, Purity, Miracles and Powers  Lucia Travaini  Part III: The Value and Worth of Offering  11. Worthless?: The Practice of Depositing Counterfeit Coins in Roman Votive Contexts  Fleur Kemmers  12. Scandinavian Women in Search of Salvation: Women’s Use of Money in Religion and Devotional Practice  Svein H. Gullbekk  13. A Cheap Salvation?: Post-Reformation Offerings in Finnish Churches  Frida Ehrnsten  

Notă biografică

Nanouschka Myrberg Burström is Reader in Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University.




Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson is Curator of the Coin Cabinet at the Historical Museum, Lund University, and a PhD fellow at the Bornholm Museum and Copenhagen University.

Recenzii

'... essential reading for all those interested in how coins are actually used by people in their daily lives' - David Yoon, American Numismatic Society (ANS Magazine, 4/2018)
‘These material culture perspectives from the numismatic community make great strides not only in elucidation the human dynamic behind ritual coin deposition, but also in demonstrating the fruitfulness of a theoretically engaged approach.’ - Jane Kershaw, British Numismatic Journal 2019

Descriere

This edited collection investigates coin use in religion and ritual from a modern theoretical framework and an interdisciplinary approach. Authors from different disciplines and nine different countries bring forward an array of thorough and well-worked out case studies ranging from the Roman period to the present time.