Medieval European Coinage is a book series on medieval coins published by
Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge. Granted letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, it is the oldest university press in the world. It is also the King's Printer.
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in association with the
Fitzwilliam Museum
The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th Vis ...
, Cambridge. The project was the idea of professor
Philip Grierson
Philip Grierson, FBA (15 November 1910 – 15 January 2006) was a British historian and numismatist, emeritus professor of numismatics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College for over seventy years. During his long an ...
(1910-2006) and
Mark Blackburn (1953-2011) was the first general editor. It will cover the coinages of Europe for the period c.450-1500.
Medieval European Coinage.
British Academy. Retrieved 1 February 2019. It has been described as the "first comprehensive survey of European medieval coinages since the '' Traité de numismatique du moyen âge'' of Engel and Serrure" (1891-1905).[
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Volumes
The volumes so far published and announced are:[Medieval European Coinage.]
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
* 1. The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th Centuries). P. Grierson and M. A. S. Blackburn (published 1986).
* 2. Germany I: Western Germany. P. Ilisch (in preparation).
* 3. Germany II: North-eastern Germany
* 4. Germany III: Central and Southern Germany
* 5 (a). France I: The age of the denier. M. Bompaire (in preparation).
* 5 (b). France II: Later royal and feudal coinages.
* 6. The Iberian Peninsula. M. Crusafont, A. M. Balaguer (published 2013).
* 7 (a) The Low Countries I: The Early Coinage and the Pre-Burgundian South. P. Grierson, P. Spufford and S. Boffa (in preparation).
* 7 (b) The Low Countries II: The North and the Burgundian Period. P. Grierson, P. Spufford and S. Boffa (in preparation).
* 8. Britain and Ireland, c.400-1066. R. Naismith (published 2017).
* 9. (a). British Isles, 1066–1279. M. Allen (in preparation).
* 9. (b). British Isles, 1279–1509.
* 10. The Nordic Countries. J. Steen Jensen and E. Screen (in preparation).
* 11. Hungary and the Balkans. E. Oberländer-Târnoveanu (in preparation).
* 12. Italy I: Northern Italy. W. R. Day Jr., M. Matzke and A. Saccocci (published 2016).
* 13. Italy II: Central Italy. W. R. Day Jr. (in preparation).
* 14. Italy III: South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia. P. Grierson and L. Travaini (published 1998).
* 15. Central and Eastern Europe. B. Paszkiewicz (in preparation).
* 16. The Latin East. J. Baker, R. Kelleher and R. Kool (in preparation).
* 17. Kingdoms of Arles and Lorraine
References
Cambridge University Press books
Numismatic catalogs
Series of history books
Fitzwilliam Museum
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