Money, economy and society in Late Saxon England: The Lenborough Hoard and the monetary impact of Anglo-Danish rule

撒克逊晚期英格兰的货币、经济和社会：伦伯勒宝库和英丹麦统治的货币影响

• 批准号: 2281475
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leicester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2281475
• 关键词: Money; economy; society; Late; Saxon

Research context The project centres on the use of money in late Anglo-Saxon England, and what the issue, use, and distribution of coins reveals about the broader economy in the century before the Norman Conquest. It will do this via analysis of two types of coin data contained in three datasets - the Portable Antiquities Scheme database [PAS], the Early Medieval Coin corpus [EMC], and a new hoard, discovered in 2014 close to the village of Lenborough, near Buckingham, which comprises 5248 coins minted during the reigns of Æthelred II ('The Unready', 978-1016) and Cnut (1016-35) preserved in almost pristine condition. The Lenborough Hoard as not yet been fully catalogued and remains unstudied apart from a short preliminary report. This project will deliver the catalogue for the Hoard and the seminal contextual analysis of it, and create opportunities for public dissemination of knowledge gained through a new exhibition and other outreach opportunities. The Lenborough Hoard was bought for the nation in 2016 after a public fundraising campaign. Its long term home is at the Bucks County Museum in Aylesbury. It is a unique source of evidence to analyse the impact of regime change on the early English economy in the later tenth and eleventh centuries, comprising a statistically significant number of coins that span this period. The data from the hoard is qualitatively and quantitatively different from that derived from single finds of coins recorded in the PAS and the EMC databases, since single finds record every day losses, whereas a hoard represents a single deposit likely to have been made in times of social stress. Contextualising the Lenborough Hoard against the single finds data will facilitate a much more nuanced understanding of the supply and use of money in late Saxon England than possible hitherto. The project will facilitate a new exhibition at the Bucks County Museum, and provide scholars with detailed analysis of a major new body of evidence. The project covers the 80 years following King Edgar's major reform of the coinage in c. 973, made possible by the influx of silver created by a trade surplus with Ottonian Germany. Edgar's reforms created a currency that was remarkably stable, even through the tumultuous reign of Æthelred II, when England was subject to repeated attack by Viking armies and increasingly punitive taxation to service the 'Danegeld' that was used to buy them off. In 1016 England experienced dramatic regime change, when the old West Saxon dynasty was deposed by the prince of Denmark, Cnut, who subsequently ruled as king in England as well as Denmark and Norway. By the time of Cnut's conquest, England had been subject to almost 40 years of warfare and Danegeld. The volume of silver payments recorded in the sources, and the quantity of coins of both Æthelred and Cnut excavated in Scandinavia, reveal the profound wealth of late Saxon England; it is this and the role of coin in that society which this project seeks to illuminate by investigating the impact of Anglo-Danish rule on the monetary economy of eleventh-century England.

研究背景该项目的中心是盎格鲁-撒克逊晚期英格兰的货币使用，以及硬币的发行、使用和分配揭示了诺曼征服前世纪更广泛的经济。它将通过分析三个数据集中包含的两种类型的硬币数据来实现这一目标-便携式古物计划数据库[PAS]，早期中世纪硬币语料库[EMC]，以及2014年在白金汉附近的Lenborough村附近发现的一个新的囤积物，其中包括5248枚硬币。（《未准备》，978-1016）和克努特（1016- 1035）几乎保存完好。伦伯勒宝藏尚未被完全编目，除了一份简短的初步报告外，仍然没有被研究。该项目将提供宝藏目录及其开创性的背景分析，并为公众传播通过新的展览和其他外联机会获得的知识创造机会。Lenborough Hoard是在2016年的一次公开筹款活动后为国家购买的。它的长期家是在艾尔斯伯里的巴克斯县博物馆。它是分析十世纪末和十一世纪政权更迭对早期英国经济影响的独特证据来源，其中包括跨越这一时期的统计上显着数量的硬币。从囤积物中获得的数据在质量和数量上都不同于从PAS和EMC数据库中记录的单个硬币发现中获得的数据，因为单个发现记录了每天的损失，而囤积物代表了可能在社会紧张时期进行的单个存款。将伦伯勒窖藏与单一发现的数据相结合，将有助于对撒克逊晚期英格兰货币供应和使用的理解比迄今为止的理解更加细致入微。该项目将促进在巴克斯县博物馆的新展览，并为学者提供一个主要的新证据的详细分析。该项目涵盖了80年后，国王埃德加的主要改革的cocoin c。973年，由于与立陶宛德国的贸易顺差，银流入，这一点成为可能。埃德加的改革创造了一种非常稳定的货币，即使在动荡的埃塞尔雷德二世统治期间，英格兰也受到维京海盗军队的反复攻击，越来越多的惩罚性税收被用来收买他们。1016年，英格兰经历了戏剧性的政权更迭，古老的西撒克逊王朝被丹麦王子克努特废黜，克努特随后成为英格兰、丹麦和挪威的国王。到克努特征服的时候，英格兰已经经历了近40年的战争和丹麦。资料中记载的银支付量，以及斯堪的纳维亚出土的埃塞尔雷德和克努特的硬币数量，都揭示了撒克逊晚期英格兰的巨大财富。本课题试图通过研究盎格鲁-丹麦统治对11世纪英格兰货币经济的影响，来阐明这一点以及硬币在该社会中的作用。