Divina Moneta : Coins in Religion and Ritual
Coins, Medieval-History Coins-Europe-History Money-Europe-Religious aspects
Routledge
2018
1st ed.
EISBN 9781317149057
Cover.
Title.
Copyright.
Contents.
List of figures.
List of tables.
List of contributors.
Preface.
Introduction: Faith and ritual materialised: Coin finds in religious contexts.
PART I Money in rituals and practice.
1. Death by deposition? Coins and ritual in the late Iron Age and early Roman transition in northern Gaul.
2. The impact of coinage on ritual offerings during the late Iron Age (c. 250-25/15 BC).
3. Coins and baptism in Late Antiquity: Written sources and numismatic evidence reconsidered.
4. Pilgrims, pennies and the ploughzone: Folded coins in medieval Britain.
5. Why money does grow on trees: The British coin-tree custom.
PART II Coins as secular and sacred objects.
6. Coins as non-coins: The use and meaning of Roman coins in religious contexts outside the Empire.
7. Firmly I believe and truly: Religious iconography on early Anglo-Saxon coins.
8. Pecuniary profanities? Money, Christianity and demonstrative giving in the early Middle Ages.
9. Coins and the church in medieval England: Votive and economic functions of money in religious contexts.
10. Sacra Moneta: Mints and divinity: Purity, miracles and powers.
PART III The value and worth of offering.
11. Worthless? The practice of depositing counterfeit coins in Roman votive contexts.
12. Scandinavian women in search of salvation: Women's use of money in religion and devotional practice.
13. A cheap salvation? Post-Reformation offerings in Finnish churches.
Index.
Title.
Copyright.
Contents.
List of figures.
List of tables.
List of contributors.
Preface.
Introduction: Faith and ritual materialised: Coin finds in religious contexts.
PART I Money in rituals and practice.
1. Death by deposition? Coins and ritual in the late Iron Age and early Roman transition in northern Gaul.
2. The impact of coinage on ritual offerings during the late Iron Age (c. 250-25/15 BC).
3. Coins and baptism in Late Antiquity: Written sources and numismatic evidence reconsidered.
4. Pilgrims, pennies and the ploughzone: Folded coins in medieval Britain.
5. Why money does grow on trees: The British coin-tree custom.
PART II Coins as secular and sacred objects.
6. Coins as non-coins: The use and meaning of Roman coins in religious contexts outside the Empire.
7. Firmly I believe and truly: Religious iconography on early Anglo-Saxon coins.
8. Pecuniary profanities? Money, Christianity and demonstrative giving in the early Middle Ages.
9. Coins and the church in medieval England: Votive and economic functions of money in religious contexts.
10. Sacra Moneta: Mints and divinity: Purity, miracles and powers.
PART III The value and worth of offering.
11. Worthless? The practice of depositing counterfeit coins in Roman votive contexts.
12. Scandinavian women in search of salvation: Women's use of money in religion and devotional practice.
13. A cheap salvation? Post-Reformation offerings in Finnish churches.
Index.
