Peter Sawyer

The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England

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Produktbeschreibung

An account of the ways wealth was accumulated and the forms it took in Anglo-Saxon England, with emphasis on recent developments in the study of Anglo-Saxon coins and Domesday Book, and some of their surprising results.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199253937
• ISBN-10: 0199253935
• Artikelnr.: 47869263

Autorenporträt

Peter Sawyer has taught at the universities of Edinburgh, Birmingham, Leeds, Gothenburg, Minnesota, and California-Berkeley. He was Professor of Medieval History at Leeds University from1970 till 1982, and took early retirement to live in Sweden and devote more time to early Scandinavian history. He was awarded an Honorary DPhil. from the University of Copenhagen in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Tempore Regis Edwardi
3: From solidi to sceattas
4: The Eighth and Ninth Centuries
5: From Edward the Elder to Edward the Confessor
6: `Whoever has cash can acquire anything he wants¿
Appendix: Estimating dies, coins, and currency
References