- Department of Coins and Medals
Fitzwilliam Museum
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1RB
Richard Kelleher
University of Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, Faculty Member
- Archaeology, Numismatics, Medieval Archaeology, Medieval numismatics, Medieval England, Coins finds as archaeological artefacts, and 58 moreHoard finds, Crusades, Normans, Medieval Europe, Medievalism, Votive offerings, Metal Finds (Archaeology), Early medieval numismatics, 12th century England, 13th century England, Monetary history, Economic History, Historical Archaeology, Post Medieval Numismatics, Medieval Artefacts, Medieval castles, The military religious orders of the Middle Ages : the Hospitallers, the Templars, the Teutonic knights, and others, Museum Studies, Applied Numismatics, Fitzwilliam Museum, Castle Studies, Coins, Coin Hoards, Medieval Coins, Archaeology and Metal Detecting, Pilgrimage, Saints' Cults, Metal detector surveys (Archaeology), Medieval London, Metal-Detecting and Archaeology, Early Medieval Archaeology, Caribbean Studies, Medieval History, Medieval Studies, Material Culture Studies, The Archaeology of London, Medieval small finds, GIS Applications in Archaeology, British Museum, Historical Archaeology, Bibliography of numismatic, Archaeology of Ritual and Magic, Castles and Fortifications, Materiality, Crusader Archaeology, History, Crusader Numismatics, The Principality of Antioch, County of Edessa, Medieval and Modern Numismatics, Edessa, History of Crusades, Crusades and the Latin East, Crusader States, CRUSADER KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM, Trench Art, Social Archaeology, and Death and Burial (Archaeology)edit
This fully illustrated catalogue is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between money, power, resistance and dissent. It accompanies major exhibitions at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Art Gallery of Ontario in... more
This fully illustrated catalogue is the first of its kind to examine the relationship between money, power, resistance and dissent. It accompanies major exhibitions at The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.
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This book is an excellent reference guide to identifying medieval coins. Containing over 530 beautiful colour photographs together with a comprehensive listing of mints, moneyers and denominations for all English and Irish coins struck... more
This book is an excellent reference guide to identifying medieval coins. Containing over 530 beautiful colour photographs together with a comprehensive listing of mints, moneyers and denominations for all English and Irish coins struck between 1066 and 1489. A History of Medieval Coinage in England provides an illustrated guide to the coinage of medieval England from the Norman Conquest of 1066 to the reign of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. While providing guidance on identification this book also places coinage in its historical context and gives insight into how coins were manufactured, used in circulation and lost or buried in a hoard. It is illustrated by more than 530 colour photographs, as well as 125 distribution maps, tables and images of places and people which help bring to life the medieval world in which coins were used and lost.
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This paper considers the medieval numismatic data from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a period of critical importance in the development of the money economy in England and Wales2. By examining the spatial distribution and... more
This paper considers the medieval numismatic
data from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a period
of critical importance in the development of the money
economy in England and Wales2. By examining the
spatial distribution and denominational profile visible
in the single find data, the spread of ‘monetisation’ and
the changing patterns of coin use will be shown.
data from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a period
of critical importance in the development of the money
economy in England and Wales2. By examining the
spatial distribution and denominational profile visible
in the single find data, the spread of ‘monetisation’ and
the changing patterns of coin use will be shown.
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In medieval Britain coins found use beyond the monetary exchange purpose for which they were originally produced. Through the study of surviving coin finds and supporting documentary and archaeological evidence, this paper introduces the... more
In medieval Britain coins found use beyond the monetary exchange purpose for which they were originally produced. Through the study of surviving coin finds and supporting documentary and archaeological evidence, this paper introduces the principal non-currency methods to which coins were put and explores a number of questions: why were coins used as the adaptive edium and for what purpose? What can we deduce from the type, denomination and condition of the adapted coins? What do the various practices outlined below tell us about the relationships between people and money, display and piety, and religion and ritual?
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An introduction to the continental copies of English pennies of Edward I and II.
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An introduction to the coinages of the Yorkist kings Edward IV, Edward V and Richard III.
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A history of the coins of Henry VI
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Coins are a vital source of evidence for many aspects of the medieval past. In this thesis a large volume of provenanced coin records collected and published online by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) are analysed to look for... more
Coins are a vital source of evidence for many aspects of the medieval past. In this thesis a large volume of provenanced coin records collected and published online by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) are analysed to look for patterns of monetization and coin use in medieval England and Wales. While the approach used here will make full use of numismatic methods it also seeks to evolve an interdisciplinary perspective to the data. As well as providing the first national study of this kind the research also aims to draw out evidence for alternative, non-monetary uses of coins, including the adaption of coinage for other purposes, for example jewellery. Additionally the impact and various roles played by imported foreign coins will be assessed to provide a new perspective on England’s links with its near Continental neighbours and beyond. The results demonstrate a long and complex story of coin use and monetisation over the study period. The spread of coin use was intimately linked to coin production which was itself a geographically contingent phenomenon absorbing metals through trade with the Continent. Coin distributions were also subject to dynamics such as levels of population and other demographic factors. Foreign coins played an important role at times in English currency, if not always a welcome one. The political contacts of the English crown is borne out in the appearance of many imported coins but direct trading links, for example with Venice, mutually beneficial currency agreements, as arranged with the Burgundians in the fifteenth century, or coins as the simple souvenirs of pilgrims also played a part. By exploring the re-use of coins this thesis significantly expands current understandings of how medieval people viewed coinage and how they attributed new meanings to them.
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This chapter discusses the relationship between numismatics and archaeology in the later medieval period. It begins by tracing the beginning of the serious study of medieval coins in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and discusses... more
This chapter discusses the relationship between numismatics and archaeology in the later medieval period. It begins by tracing the beginning of the serious study of medieval coins in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and discusses the estranged relationship between the disciplines of archaeology and numismatics into the modern period. It demonstrates the vital role that coin hoards have played in the study of the monetary economy of medieval England and Wales and the growth of numismatics as a discipline. However, the emergence of single find evidence (principally metal-detector finds recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme) provides us with a new dataset that has the potential to rewrite what we can say about monetization, especially in rural contexts. Imported coins and those used as jewellery or as votive objects are discussed.