IMC 2014: Sessions
Session 1102: Conceptualizing Value in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland, II: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England
Wednesday 9 July 2014, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
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| Organiser: | Rory Naismith, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jane Kershaw, Institute of Archaeology, University College London |
| Paper 1102-a | Borrowing Money: Contact and Change in Early English Vocabulary (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Language and Literature - Old English, Language and Literature - Middle English |
| Paper 1102-b | The Land Market and Anglo-Saxon Society (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - Rural, Numismatics |
| Paper 1102-c | Looking at the Value of Silver in Viking Society through the Prism of Gotlandic Hoards (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Archaeology - Sites, Economics - General |
| Abstract | This second session pursues further questions about value and its conceptual and material manifestations in early medieval England. Different disciplinary approaches come into play, and the focus shifts to England in the early Middle Ages. Prominent scholars of archaeology, history and language join forces to explore the interaction of different forms of wealth in the material record, as well as how views of wealth and value evolved over time in relation to broader changes in society; changes which are also explored through the evidence for the land market in England, which provides the best recorded documentary context for how wealth was used in England at this time. |