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Coins in Churches: Archaeology, Money and Religious Devotion in Medieval Northern Europe

Coins in Churches: Archaeology, Money and Religious Devotion in Medieval Northern Europe

Gullbekk, Svein H.
Kilger, Christoph
Kristensen, Steinar

Hardcover

Series: Religion and Money in the Middle Ages

CoinsGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 0367557061
ISBN13: 9780367557065
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 27 2021
Pages: 482
Language: English

This book focuses on the formative period of Church reform in the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, when the Church paved the way for the development of money economy on its own doorstep.

Church archaeology provides evidence for patterns of monetary use related to liturgy, church architecture and devotional culture through the centuries. This volume encompasses Alpine European evidence, with emphasis on Gotland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, which opens up a new field of research on religion and money for an international audience. Based on 100,000 single finds of coins from the 11th to 18th centuries from 650 Scandinavian churches, the volume offers an in-depth discussion of the concepts of ritual, liturgy and devotional uses of money, monetary space and spiritual economy within the framework of Christendom, the medieval church and church architecture.

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