Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Skip to main content
That there was an in!ux of silver dirhams from the Muslim world into eastern and northern Europe in the ninth and tenth centuries is well known, as is the fact that the largest concentration of hoards is on the Baltic island of Gotland.... more
    • by 
    •   20  
      SlaveryEarly Medieval HistoryEarly Medieval IrelandViking Studies
4th Assemani Symposium on Islamic coins, eds. A. D’Ottone and B. Gallagher (Numismatica antica e medievale. Studi) (Trieste, in the press)
    • by 
    •   19  
      Islamic EconomicsMedieval IslamAbbasid HistoryIslamic Numismatics
Overview of the results of the project "Dirhams for Slaves". Translated by Minoru Ozawa.
    • by 
    •   8  
      Early Medieval ArchaeologyEarly Medieval HistorySlave TradeViking Age Archaeology
The Hoard of Medieval Coins from the Village Stizhok. In the spring of 2011, a clay pot was found in a field nearby the village Stizhok (Shumsk district, Ternopil’ region,Ukraine). The pot contained about 2500 silver coins struck in the... more
    • by  and +1
    •   483  
      HistoryEuropean HistoryEconomic HistoryEastern European Studies
An examination of 159 hoards with 1822 dirhams minted at Damascus during the first four centuries of Islam sheds much light on a number of important questions regarding the economic history of the Near East during the Umayyad, ‘Abbāsid,... more
    • by 
    •   18  
      Islamic EconomicsMedieval IslamAbbasid HistoryIslamic Numismatics
A settlement cluster around Kalisz first emerged in the Roman Period on a route leading from the south towards the Baltic coast. In the Early Middle Ages, a settlement centre connected with the Kalisz Zawodzie stronghold developed at the... more
    • by 
    •   14  
      Early Medieval ArchaeologyIslamic NumismaticsEarly medieval numismaticsSettlement archaeology
Conference to be held in Corpus Christi College, Oxford
MBI Al Jaber Building, 14-15 March 2016
    • by 
    •   8  
      Viking Age ArchaeologyCentral AsiaMedieval Islamic HistoryViking Age Scandinavia
In (south-)eastern part of the Baltic region a few ancient Roman coins have been recorded (for sure, or possibly) within hoards of silver dated to 10th and 11th centuries: from Nāvessala (Latvia), Eversmuiža (Latvia), Shpan’kovo... more
    • by  and +2
    •   11  
      Coins finds as archaeological artefactsCoin HoardsRoman Imperial CoinsDirham Hoards
To better understand the multicultural nature of the early Medieval Rus (c. 800-1000 CE) the plethora of influences which conglomerated in order to make this polity must be traced and analyzed. Where the general consensus of scholars has... more
    • by 
    •   16  
      ArchaeologyMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesEarly Medieval Archaeology
ZAPROSZENIE Wśród zachowań praktykowanych przez społeczności pradziejowe i wczesnohistoryczne, które poznajemy dzięki źródłom archeologicznym, masowe deponowanie dóbr jest jednym z najbardziej enigmatycznych. Spektakularne skarby... more
    • by  and +1
    •   25  
      Coin HoardsHoardHoardsHoard finds
In this project I will examine the extensively analyzed Islamic dirhams found in buried hoards and burial contexts of the Baltic Sea coastal areas and Northern Russia. These dirhams have been thoroughly research by many prominent scholars... more
    • by 
    •   9  
      Race and EthnicityViking Age ArchaeologyMedieval Islamic NumismaticsArchaeology and history of Early medieval Nomads, Old Rus an Slavic archaeology
    • by 
    •   7  
      Coin HoardsHistory of GeorgiaDirham HoardsGeorgian Numismatics