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IMC 2019: Sessions

Session 1652: The Monetary System and Currency in Eurasia in the Pre-Modern Era, II: Money and Its Circulation in the British Isles and Scandinavia

Thursday 4 July 2019, 11.15-12.45

Sponsor:Project 'The Mechanism and Development of the Monetary System and Circulation in Western Eurasia in the Pre-Modern Era', Kumamoto University / Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
Organiser:Hirokazu Tsurushima, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University
Moderator/Chair:Hirokazu Tsurushima, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University
Paper 1652-aCommerce and Coin Circulation around the Irish Sea in the 9th and 10th Centuries
(Language: English)
Yuta Uchikawa, Department of Occidental History, University of Tokyo
Index terms: Economics - Trade, Numismatics
Paper 1652-bThe Irish-Sea Imitations and Their Circulation during the Middle Ages
(Language: English)
Hiroko Yanagawa, Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka
Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Trade, Numismatics, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1652-cThe Use of Money in Scotland during the 12th and 13th Centuries: The Charter Evidence
(Language: English)
Kenji Nishioka, Kyoto University
Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Economics - General, Numismatics
Paper 1652-dChurch and the Money Economy in High Medieval Norway
(Language: English)
Takahiro Narikawa, College of Arts, Rikkyo University
Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Economics - General, Economics - Trade, Numismatics
Abstract

This session is organised as part of the research project on the pre-modern monetary system in Western Eurasia, funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Four speakers in this session will focus on the circulation of silver pennies in/around the British Isles and its connections across the North Sea. The first paper will discuss the role of Anglo-Saxon coins as key currency around the Irish Sea. The second paper will also deal with the Irish Sea coinage, focusing on the imitations of Anglo-Saxon coins. The third paper will investigate the charter evidence to measure the circulation of silver pennies in Scotland. In addition to these papers, the fourth by Takahiro Narikawa, titled as "Church and the money economy in High Medieval Norway", will focus on the possible connection between the church and some evidences of 'foreign' coin circulations in 13th-century Norway.