Dr Elina Screen

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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
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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
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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.
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Publications
Publications
Book Section
- Screen, Elina (2020) Carolingian fathers and sons in Italy: Lothar I and Louis II's successful partnership. In: Gantner, C. and Pohl, W. (eds.) After Charlemagne: Carolingian Italy and its Rulers. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 148-163. ISBN 9781108840774.
- Screen, Elina (2020) Coins as an indicator of communications between the British Isles and Scandinavia in the Viking age. In: Gruszczyński, J. and Jankowiak, M. and Shepard, J. (eds.) Viking-Age Trade: Slaves, Silver and Gotland. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 377-395. ISBN 9781138293946.