FLAME: Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy
FLAME: Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy
The FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy)
project involves an international group of scholars investigating the
process of change in the economy of the Mediterranean and surrounding
regions during the transitional period from antiquity to the early
Middle Ages in the Byzantine, Islamic and European spheres and while
using coinage as a proxy. It is a project of the Princeton University
Numismatic Collection. This site allows project participants to post
their research results and exchange observations among themselves. At
present it is also open on a read-only basis with the understanding that
the material posted here represents the unedited and unpublished work
of the participants and is not to be cited or otherwise used without
their permission.
The FLAME project will hold its first conference to conclude its first stage (minting) at Princeton, 29-30 April,
bringing together our participants and several experts to discuss our
results in a broad context. At the same opportunity we will also provide
a preview of our work on the second stage (circulation).
The Phases of Research
- I – Minting, 325-c.725 CE – basically a review of the all coins
produced at Roman and Sassanian mints, with note of issues of
denominations and (less completely) types produced.
- II – Circulation, 325-725 CE – based on literary sources for the
relationship between coin issues and moneys of account, and hoards and
site finds for evidence of the geography and chronology of circulation.
Objectives
To produce comprehensive date on coinage in the period of the
transition from the ancient to the medieval world comparable and
complementary to that which Chris Wickham assembled for Framing the Early Middle Ages primarily
based on documentary and archaeological evidence. Our intention is to
work through the technical numismatic issues and be able to present our
results in a form that will be of value to historians and others not
trained in numismatics.
The minting video is currently on YouTube and can be freely used.
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