Research Staff:
Dr Rory Naismith
Junior Research Fellow, Clare College, Cambridge
Contact
Clare College
Trinity Lane,
Cambridge,
CB2 1TL
Email: rn242@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests
- the political, cultural and economic history of Anglo-Saxon England and its neighbours, especially as revealed through numismatic evidence
- medieval coinage
- Insular Latin literature
Other Activities
- council of the British Numismatic Society
- committee of the British Academy’s Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles project
Selected Publications
- ‘Antiquity, Authority and Religion in the Epitomae and Epistolae of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus’, Peritia 20 (2008), 59–85
- ‘The Coinage of Offa Revisited’, British Numismatic Journal 80 (2010)
- The Coinage of Southern England 796–c. 865, British Numismatic Society Special Publication 8 (London, 2011)
- ‘An Eighteenth-Century Single-Find of Offa from Regensburg?’, Numismatic Circular 116 (2008), 115–16
- ‘Islamic Coins from Early Medieval England’, Numismatic Chronicle 165 (2005), 193–222
- ‘Kings, Crisis and Coinage Reforms in the Mid-Eighth Century’, Early Medieval Europe (forthcoming)
- ‘Kingship and Learning in the Broad Penny Coinage of the Mercian Supremacy’, Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 2, ed. T. Abramson (forthcoming)
- ‘Money of the Saints. Church and Coinage in Early Anglo-Saxon England’, Anglo-Saxon 2 (forthcoming)
- ‘A New Moneyer for Egbert of Wessex’s West Saxon Mint’, Numismatic Circular 116 (2008), 192–4
- ‘An Offa You Can’t Refuse? Eighth-Century Mercian Titulature on Coins and in Charters’, Quaestio Insularis 7 (2006), 89–118
- ‘The Origins of the Line of Egbert, King of the West Saxons 802–39’, English Historical Review (forthcoming)
- ‘Real and Metaphorical Libraries in the Epitomae and Epistolae of Virgil the Grammarian’, Journal of Medieval Latin 19 (2009), 148–72
- ‘Six English Finds of Carolingian-Era Gold Coins’, Numismatic Chronicle 170 (2010)
- ‘Tribrach Pennies of Eadberht “Præn” and Eadwald’, British Numismatic Journal 78 (2008), 216–22
In Preparation
- Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: the Southern English Kingdoms 757–865 (Cambridge, 2011)
- ‘The Coinage of Pre-Viking East Anglia’, East Anglia in its North Sea World (forthcoming)
- ‘Peter’s Pence and Before: Numismatic Links between Anglo-Saxon England and Rome’ (forthcoming)