Silver and Gold for the Empire, June 20, 2024
Photo: S.Heidemann
Hybrid Workshop, June 20, 2024
RomanIslam Center (Early Islam) – Universität Hamburg
Organizers: Stefan Heidemann and (RomanIslam Center)
This workshop explores the role of mining and minting in the western Mediterranean world at the end of the Long Antiquity. It looks at the three large regional and political entities, North Africa, the Iberian Peninsula, and Frankish Western Europe. A special focus is on the spatial, political, and economic dimensions of mints and mines.
Where have the mines of the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa, and in Francia been situated? Who was able to exploit them? How long did they provide silver and gold? Also, where have the mints been located? What are the commercial and administrative networks that conveyed them to the mints? Why was silver processed into coins, as bullion for trade, and for regional monetary circulation? How have the mints been related to the commercial and state organization and who held the agency to mint coins?
In order to attend, please register by June 16, 2024 with romanislam"AT"uni-hamburg.de .
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