商品簡介
Coins have long played an important and diverse role in religious culture. Engaging with the "material turn" in history, this volume analyses the phenomenon of coin use for religious and ritual purposes in different cultures and across different periods of time. By utilising numismatic evidence and an evidence-based series of discussions, it offers a fuller, richer and fresher account of coin-use in ritual contexts. Adopting three broad themes - coin deposit and ritual practice, the coin as economic object and divine mediator, and the value and meaning of coin offering - the collection pulls together interdisciplinary discussions drawing upon materiality studies; rituals and religion; and a body of material - coins - that have not, as yet; been properly situated within current scholarly debates. Focusing principally on the medieval period in western Europe - including the late antique and the transition into the early middle ages the volume also includes comparative chapters from the classical, early modern and modern periods to provide a longue durée context. They reveal how coins played an enduring role in religious and ritual practice, as votive offerings found in a wide range of locations: bogs, fens, temples, ancient monuments, graves, churches, domestic buildings, and ships, as well as being used for ritual practices such as charity money-boxes and ritual-magical offerings.
作者簡介
Dr. Nanouschka M. BurstrA?m, Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University. The main focus of her research is Late Iron Age, Medieval and Historical archaeology, with a specialization in Numismatics and the material culture of medieval Scandinavia. Gitte T. Ingvardson, curator at Historical Museum, Lund University and PhD fellow, Copenhagen University & Bornholm Museum. A specialist in Viking-Age and early medieval archaeology and numismatics. Her main research interest is hoarding practice; the elite’s role as cultural mediators: detector archaeology; cultural, political and religious identity making and identity markers.
