The Early Medieval Economy

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy (FLAME)

Organizer Name

Lee Mordechai

Organizer Affiliation

Univ. of Notre Dame

Presider Name

Alan Stahl

Presider Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Paper Title 1

Economy and Environment in Late Antiquity: Coin Circulation and Destructive Disasters

Presenter 1 Name

Lee Mordechai

Paper Title 2

Failure in the Balkans: Economic Crisis and the Collapse of the Danube Frontier (ca. 582-615)

Presenter 2 Name

Andrei Gândilâ

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville

Paper Title 3

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Imitations: The Creation of Visigothic Coins

Presenter 3 Name

Merle Eisenberg

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Princeton Univ.

Start Date

11-5-2019 10:00 AM

Session Location

Schneider 1145

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 between the 4^th and the 8^th centuries from Ireland to India using coinage as a proxy. FLAME has been operating for four years and has a couple dozen scholars affiliated with it. In the session, members of the FLAME project will share the results of their research about coin circulation and therefore the economy in general in specific regions of Western Afro-Eurasia, based on their work, FLAME's tools and data. Lee Mordechai