Table of Contents

Preface
1: Introduction
2: Tempore Regis Edwardi
3: From solidi to sceattas
4: The Eighth and Ninth Centuries
5: From Edward the Elder to Edward the Confessor
6: `Whoever has cash can acquire anything he wants´
Appendix: Estimating dies, coins, and currency
References

About the Author

Peter Sawyer has taught at the universities of Edinburgh, Birmingham, Leeds, Gothenburg, Minnesota, and California-Berkeley. He was Professor of Medieval History at Leeds University from1970 till 1982, and took early retirement to live in Sweden and devote more time to early Scandinavian history. He was awarded an Honorary DPhil. from the University of Copenhagen in 2005.

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