Of real benefit not just to numismatists but to medievalists who deal with material culture, economy, politics and more, are the three catalogues of Byzantine and medieval coins (including those of Ostrogoths, Vandals and Lombards, plus later coins from Thessalonica, Trebizond and Nicaea) by Warwick W. Wroth (see my delicious links on the right hand… Continue reading Catalogues of medieval coins
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The medieval ‘southern Italian’ collections of the British Museum
Where did they come from? The medieval ‘southern Italian’ collections of the British Museum On 15 February 2005, I delivered a short paper to the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC) at the Swedish Institute of Rome. The paper was largely based on my research at the British Museum where I was examining artefacts with… Continue reading The medieval ‘southern Italian’ collections of the British Museum