Coinage and royal administration in early twelfth-century England, c1135-1154

十二世纪初英格兰的铸币和王室管理，c1135-1154

• 批准号: 2548731
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of East Anglia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2548731
• 关键词: Coinage; royal; administration; early; twelfth

In collaboration with the British Museum, UEA appointed Arrun to undertake research in the coinage of early twelfth-century England, treating the material very much as a source for English political history in the period. Although the study of coinage has been integrated with some success into mainstream Anglo-Saxon and early Norman history, there has been no sustained attempt to integrate the twelfth-century coinage into the historical narrative. This studentship aims to address that lacuna by examining the evidence of the coinage and historical texts in parallel. Using new historical thinking, and a novel, interdisciplinary approach which incorporates numismatic evidence in a way not yet done, the project seeks to challenge the accepted orthodoxy concerning the changes to the coinage in this period. The reign of King Stephen (1135-54) has been represented as one where royal authority broke down, and evidence from the coinage used to bolster that argument. But the change to the coinage in Stephen's reign could, in fact, represent the importation of continental norms of coin production rather than the 'breakdown' of English society. This interpretation would fit with work showing that this main debt-collecting agency of the crown did not simply cease to work, but that its records were deliberately destroyed after 1154. We can thus begin to understand that our interpretation of the reign of Stephen is conditioned by the survival of written sources. With coins, however, new caches of 'documents' have been found to challenge a picture created by what the successors of Stephen chose to record, which provides this opportunity for an imaginative rethinking of the historical evidence.

东安格利亚大学与大英博物馆合作，委托阿伦对12世纪早期英格兰的货币进行研究，并将这些材料作为当时英国政治史的资料来源。虽然对造币的研究已经成功地融入了主流的盎格鲁-撒克逊和早期诺曼历史，但没有人持续地尝试将12世纪的造币融入历史叙事。这个学生的目的是解决这一空白，通过审查的证据，铸币和历史文本并行。该项目采用新的历史思维，采用一种全新的跨学科方法，以一种尚未完成的方式整合货币证据，旨在挑战有关这一时期货币变化的公认正统观念。斯蒂芬国王（1135-54）的统治时期被认为是王权崩溃的时期，来自铸币的证据用来支持这一论点。但事实上，斯蒂芬统治时期铸币的变化，可能代表了大陆铸币规范的输入，而不是英国社会的“崩溃”。这种解释与一些研究相符，这些研究表明，王室的主要债务催收机构并没有简单地停止工作，而是在1154年之后，它的记录被故意销毁了。因此，我们可以开始理解，我们对司提反统治的解释是由书面资料的存续所决定的。然而，随着硬币的出现，人们发现了新的“文件”，这些文件挑战了斯蒂芬的继任者选择记录的图像，这为对历史证据进行富有想象力的重新思考提供了机会。