Front cover image for Medieval European coinage : with a catalogue of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge / 1, The early Middle Ages : 5th-10th centuries / Philip Grierson and Mark Blackburn

Medieval European coinage : with a catalogue of the coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge / 1, The early Middle Ages : 5th-10th centuries / Philip Grierson and Mark Blackburn

This, the first volume of Medieval European Coinage, surveys the coinage of Western Europe from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West in the fifth century to the emergence of recognizable 'national' political units in the tenth.
Print Book, English, 2006
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.], 2006
[Catalogues]
XXI, 674 p. : ill.
9780521031776, 052103177X
1040385660
Foreword Graham Pollard; List of plates; List of maps; List of tables; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on spelling; 1. Introduction; 2. The Vandals; 3. Odovacar and the Ostrogoths, 476–552; 4. The Visigoths; 5. The Lombards; 6. Minor Germanic peoples; 7. The Franks and Frisians in the Merovingian period; 8. The Anglo-Saxons: sixth–mid eighth centuries; 9. The Carolingians; 10. The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings: eighth–tenth centuries; Appendices; Bibliography; Catalogue; Indexes.