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Dr Elina Screen

  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    After completing my PhD on ninth-century Francia at the University of Cambridge, I worked in the Department of Coins and Medals at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge as a research associate on the Medieval European Coinage project and the Anglo-Saxon Coins in Norway project. This triggered my enduring fascination with coins and their potential to illuminate the past. Subsequently I have held fixed-term lectureships including at the University of St Andrews and at the University of Oxford. I am increasingly engaged by themes in global history in my research and teaching.

    Highlights

    • The Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 65-66:  Norwegian Collections, Parts I and II (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2013 and 2015)

    • ‘Coining it? Carolingian rulers and the Frankish coinage, c.750-900’, History Compass (8 August 2019), doi: 10.1111/hic3.12591

    Office hours

    Please email me to arrange a meeting via Teams at a mutually convenient time, or an in-person meeting on one of my teaching days.

    Qualifications

    • MA History (Cantab)
    • MPhil in Medieval History (Cantab)
    • PhD in Medieval History (Cantab)
    • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

    Professional activities

    I am General Editor of the Medieval European Coinage Project, a British Academy project based at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.

    Professional memberships

    • President, British Numismatic Society

    ORCID

    0000-0003-1300-4425
  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Early medieval political and economic history
    • Numismatics
    • Charters

    Research overview

    My research explores the experience of participating in economic and political networks in the early middle ages. I use written and coinage evidence to explore questions including economic practices, concepts of value and regional boundaries in Francia, the Viking world and England c. 750-1100. I am currently completing my monograph on the Carolingian emperor Lothar I (795-855), Lothar I and the Remaking of Francia, 843-855, which draws in particular on the royal charters. I also work on the movement of Anglo-Saxon coins within Scandinavia and the Baltic as evidence for trade links and cultural transfers, and am developing a project on rivers and maritime connections.

    Research Centres and Institutes

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    I supervise MA dissertations on the early medieval West, c. 300-1000, especially Francia; on Scandinavia and the Baltic, c. 700-1100; and on charters and Western numismatics.

  • Publications

    Publications

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