Exploring the Early Medieval Economy: From Macro to Micro
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy (FLAME)
Organizer Name
Lee Mordechai
Organizer Affiliation
Princeton Univ.
Presider Name
Alan Stahl
Presider Affiliation
Princeton Univ.
Paper Title 1
The FLAME Project: Visualizing Transnational Medieval Economic Networks
Presenter 1 Name
Lee Mordechai
Paper Title 2
Fraternal Enemies Reconciled: History, Numismatics, and Archaeology
Presenter 2 Name
Andrei Gandila
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville
Paper Title 3
The Monetary Economy of Early Medieval Syria in Its Mediterranean Context
Presenter 3 Name
Jane Sancinito
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Univ. of Pennsylvania
Paper Title 4
The Monetary Economy of the Byzantine Islands between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Presenter 4 Name
Luca Zavagno
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Bilkent Univ.
Start Date
13-5-2017 3:30 PM
Session Location
Schneider 1155
Description
FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy, website at coinage.princeton.edu) is a digital humanities project that reconstructs the early medieval economy over the 4th-8th centuries from Ireland to Iran using coinage as a proxy. FLAME has been operating for three years and currently has twenty scholars and staff members affiliated with it.
We are currently in the middle of FLAME's second stage, in which we examine the circulation of coins throughout Western Afro-Eurasia. We have been inputting a large number of individual coins, published in hoards, excavations and single finds from the entire region into a single database. At the same time, we have been developing our own software to visualize this large amount of data, which is unprecedented in our field. The sheer amount of this information can help shed light on some of the largest questions in the field, such as the economic realities between the fall/transformation of the Roman Empire, the origins of the European Economy and the Rise of Islam.
Lee Mordechai
Exploring the Early Medieval Economy: From Macro to Micro
Schneider 1155
FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy, website at coinage.princeton.edu) is a digital humanities project that reconstructs the early medieval economy over the 4th-8th centuries from Ireland to Iran using coinage as a proxy. FLAME has been operating for three years and currently has twenty scholars and staff members affiliated with it.
We are currently in the middle of FLAME's second stage, in which we examine the circulation of coins throughout Western Afro-Eurasia. We have been inputting a large number of individual coins, published in hoards, excavations and single finds from the entire region into a single database. At the same time, we have been developing our own software to visualize this large amount of data, which is unprecedented in our field. The sheer amount of this information can help shed light on some of the largest questions in the field, such as the economic realities between the fall/transformation of the Roman Empire, the origins of the European Economy and the Rise of Islam.
Lee Mordechai