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Author Sawyer, P. H., author

Title The wealth of Anglo-Saxon England : based on the Ford Lectures delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1993 / Peter Sawyer
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 155 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Tempore Regis Edwardi -- From solidi to sceattas -- The eighth and ninth centuries -- From Edward the Elder to Edward the Confessor (899-1066) -- 'Whoever has cash (denarios) can acquire anything he wants' -- Appendix: estimating dies, coins, and currency
Summary Explains how, on the eve of the Norman Conquest, England had become an exceptionally wealthy, highly urbanized kingdom, with a large, well-controlled coinage of high quality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-146) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary platform, viewed December 17, 2013)
Subject Wealth -- England -- History -- To 1500
Coins, Anglo-Saxon.
ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES -- Coins, Currency & Medals.
Civilization
Coins, Anglo-Saxon
Economic history
Wealth
SUBJECT England -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043294
Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730
England -- Civilization -- To 1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043273
Subject England
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191650819
0191650811
9781283948142
1283948141