'Divina Moneta: Coin finds in religious contexts' open a significant number of questions concerning the conception and use of coins and money, in different geographical and temporal settings. Votive offerings, ritual minting and donations are but a few examples of how coins were, and still are, used as material mediators between heaven and earth, or Gods and Men.
List of speakers and papers:
Frida Ehrnsten, National Museum, Finland, “A cheap salvation? - Post-reformational offerings in Finnish churches”
Svein H. Gullbekk, University of Oslo, Norway, “Medieval Scandinavian women in search of Salvation”
Helle Horsnæs, National Museum, Denmark, “Sacred or Secular? The roles of landscape, tradition and social context for the function of Roman coins in a non-Roman environment”
Ceri Houlbrook, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, “’So Money Really Does Grow On Trees’: The British Coin-Tree Custom”
Richard Kelleher, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, “Pilgrims, pennies and the ploughzone: folded coins in medieval Britain”
Fleur Kemmers, JW Goethe-Universität, Germany, “Worthless? The practice of offering counterfeit coinage in roman religious contexts”
Stefan Krmnicek, Universität Tübingen, Germany, “Small change for Mercury? Ritual coin use in Roman Germany”
Rory Naismith, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, “Pecuniary Profanities? Money and Ritual in the Early Middle Ages”
Claudia Perassi, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy, “Baptism and coins in late antiquity. Written sources and numismatic data reconsidered”
Final Comment: Colin Haselgrove, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, "Coinage, ritual and religion: a view from protohistory"
This will be one of just a few slots for roundtable discussions at the next world congress for numismatists, and we are delighted that Nanouscha and Gitte organize this event.
INC Congress has been organized every six years since 1936.