Divina Moneta: Coins in Religion and Ritual

ISBN-13: 9780367593971 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 276 str.

Nanouschka Myrberg Burström; Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson

Opis

This edited collection investigates coin use in religion and ritual from a modern theoretical framework and an interdisciplinary approach. Authors from different disciplines and nine different countries bring forward an array of thorough and well-worked out case studies ranging from the Roman period to the present time.

Spis treści

Introduction: Faith and Ritual Materialised: Coin Finds in Religious Contexts  Nanouschka Myrberg Burström  Part I: Money in Rituals and Practice  1. Death by Deposition?: Coins and Ritual in the Late Iron Age and Early Roman Transition in Northern Gaul  David Wigg-Wolf  2. The Impact of Coinage on Ritual Offerings During the Late Iron Age (c. 250–25/15 BC)  Michael Nick  3. Coins and Baptism in Late Antiquity: Written Sources and Numismatic Evidence Reconsidered  Claudia Perassi  4. Pilgrims, Pennies and the Ploughzone: Folded Coins in Medieval Britain  Richard Kelleher  5. Why Money Does Grow on Trees: The British Coin-Tree Custom  Ceri Houlbrook  Part II: Coins as Secular and Sacred Objects  6. Coins as Non-Coins: The Use and Meaning of Roman Coins in Religious Contexts Outside the Empire  Helle W. Horsnæs  7. Firmly I Believe and Truly: Religious Iconography on Early Anglo-Saxon Coins  Anna Gannon  8. Pecuniary Profanities?: Money, Christianity and Demonstrative Giving in the Early Middle Ages  Rory Naismith  9. Coins and the Church in Medieval England: Votive and Economic Functions of Money in Religious Contexts  Martin Allen  10. Sacra Moneta: Divinity, Purity, Miracles and Powers  Lucia Travaini  Part III: The Value and Worth of Offering  11. Worthless?: The Practice of Depositing Counterfeit Coins in Roman Votive Contexts  Fleur Kemmers  12. Scandinavian Women in Search of Salvation: Women’s Use of Money in Religion and Devotional Practice  Svein H. Gullbekk  13. A Cheap Salvation?: Post-Reformation Offerings in Finnish Churches  Frida Ehrnsten  

O autorze

Nanouschka Myrberg Burström is Reader in Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies at Stockholm University.

Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson is Curator of the Coin Cabinet at the Historical Museum, Lund University, and a PhD fellow at the Bornholm Museum and Copenhagen University.