Peter’s Pence and beyond: written and numismatic evidence on Anglo-Saxon offerings and payments to the papacy

Dr Rory Naismith and Dr Francesca Tinti (currently Ikerbasque Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country (Spain) and an honorary research associate of ASNC) have been awarded a Small Research Grant by the British Academy to study monetary relations between Anglo-Saxon England and the papacy. Making use of documentary, archaeological and scientific sources, […]

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Congratulations to Rory Naismith

Rory has been awarded a Leverhulme Post-doctoral Fellowship to work on the preparation of a new volume in the series Medieval European Coinage, published by Cambridge University Press and inaugurated – with support from the Leverhulme Trust – in the early 1980s by Professor Philip Grierson (1910-2006) and his first research assistant Mark Blackburn (1953-2011). […]

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Network Facilitator – Job Vacancy

The Faculty is seeking to appoint a part-time (0.6 FTE) Network Facilitator in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic with effect from 1 August 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter, for 15 months. The appointee will assist the Principal Investigator on the Leverhulme Trust-funded International Network ‘Converting the Isles’ in the smooth running […]

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