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Divina Moneta book

Coins in Religion and Ritual

Divina Moneta

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Divina Moneta book

Coins in Religion and Ritual
Edited ByNanouschka Myrberg Burström, Gitte Tarnow Ingvardson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 22 November 2017
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315577760
Pages 276 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315577760
SubjectsHumanities
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Burström, N. (Ed.), Ingvardson, G. (Ed.). (2018). Divina Moneta. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315577760

This edited collection analyses the phenomenon of coin use for religious and ritual purposes in different cultures and across different periods of time. It proposes an engagement with the theory and interpretation of the ‘material turn’ with numismatic evidence, and an evidence-based series of discussions to offer a fuller, richer and fresh account of coin use in ritual contexts. No extensive publication has previously foregrounded coins in such a model, despite the fact that coins constitute an integrated part of the material culture of most societies today and of many in the past. Here, interdisciplinary discussions are organised around three themes: coin deposit and ritual practice, the coin as economic object and divine mediator, and the value and meaning of coin offering. Although focusing on the medieval period in Western Europe, the book includes instructive cases from the Roman period until today. The collection brings together well-established and emerging scholars from archaeology, art history, ethnology, history and numismatics, and great weight is given to material evidence which can complement and contradict the scarce written sources.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |10 pages

Introduction

Faith and ritual materialised: Coin finds in religious contexts
ByNanouschka Myrberg Burström

part I|98 pages

Money in rituals and practice

chapter 1|17 pages

Death by deposition?

Coins and ritual in the late Iron Age and early Roman transition in northern Gaul
ByDavid Wigg-Wolf

chapter 2|19 pages

The impact of coinage on ritual offerings during the late Iron Age (c. 250–25/15 bc)

ByMichael Nick

chapter 3|19 pages

Coins and baptism in Late Antiquity

Written sources and numismatic evidence reconsidered
ByClaudia Perassi

chapter 4|19 pages

Pilgrims, pennies and the ploughzone

Folded coins in medieval Britain
ByRichard Kelleher

chapter 5|22 pages

Why money does grow on trees

The British coin-tree custom
ByCeri Houlbrook

part II|82 pages

Coins as secular and sacred objects

chapter 6|14 pages

Coins as non-coins

The use and meaning of Roman coins in religious contexts outside the Empire
ByHelle W. Horsnæs

chapter 7|17 pages

Firmly I believe and truly

Religious iconography on early Anglo-Saxon coins
ByAnna Gannon

chapter 8|18 pages

Pecuniary profanities?

Money, Christianity and demonstrative giving in the early Middle Ages
ByRory Naismith

chapter 9|14 pages

Coins and the church in medieval England

Votive and economic functions of money in religious contexts
ByMartin Allen

chapter 10|17 pages

Sacra Moneta

Mints and divinity: Purity, miracles and powers
ByLucia Travaini

part III|58 pages

The value and worth of offering

chapter 11|16 pages

Worthless?

The practice of depositing counterfeit coins in Roman votive contexts
ByFleur Kemmers

chapter 12|19 pages

Scandinavian women in search of salvation

Women’s use of money in religion and devotional practice
BySvein H. Gullbekk

chapter 13|21 pages

A cheap salvation?

Post-Reformation offerings in Finnish churches
ByFrida Ehrnsten
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