Thursday, May 13, 2010

Coinage in Late Antiquity, University of Warwick, 27 May 2010


Coinage in Late Antiquity, University of Warwick / British Museum Research Seminar on the Roman Economy - Humanities Building, University of Warwick (Room H545), 10.00 am - 5.00 pm 

10.00-10.10 Opening 

Morning session 
Chair : Stanley Ireland (Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick)
10.10-10.45 Kevin Butcher (Department of Classics & Ancient History, University of Warwick), Hoards and Monetary Instruments in the Late Third and Early Fourth Centuries 
10.45-11.30 Roger Bland and Sam Moorhead (Department of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, The British Museum), Byzantine Gold and Bronze from Britain, 5th-6th Centuries
11.30-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.30 Fernando Lopez-Sanchez (Departamento de Historia, Geografia y Arte, Universidad Jaume I, Castellon de la Plana), Coins, armies and annonae: Spain and the Atlantic Mare Nostrum during the IV-VI centuries AD
12.30-13.30 Lunch 

Afternoon session 1
Chair: David Wigg-Wolf (Fundmünzen der Antike, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
13.30-14.15 Richard Hobbs (Department of Prehistory and Europe, The British Museum), Sacred Largesse on the Edge of the World 
14.15-15.00 Fleur Kemmers (Institut für Archäologische Wissenschaften, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt), After Rome ? The second life of Roman coins in Frankish settlements 
15.15-15.30 Coffee

Afternoon session 2
Chair: Constantina Katsari (Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester)
15.30-16.15 Richard Abdy (Department of Coins & Medals, The British Museum), The Gloucester Hoard: Changing Denominations in the Later Roman Empire 
116.15-16.50 Anthea Harris (Institute of Archaeology & Antiquity, University of Birmingham), Late Antique Byzantine Finds From China 

16.50-17.00 Closing remarks