Dr Elina Screen

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 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

• Medieval and Early Modern Worlds

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.

Teaching

Teaching modules

• The Medieval World: From Constantine to the Khans (SSHC409S4)
• Barbarians, monsters and other Others: encountering the Other, c.200-1000 (SSHC556S7)

Publications