Rory Naismith,

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is a British academic, medieval

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and

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, specialising in economic and monetary history. He is Professor of Early Medieval English History and Fellow of

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. As an undergraduate and postgraduate he studied in the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at

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between 2002 and 2009, and between 2009 and 2015 pursued postdoctoral research at the

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and was based at

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. He subsequently lectured for four years at

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before returning to the

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Selected publications

*''The Coinage of Southern England 796–865'', British Numismatic Society Special Publication 8, 2 vols. (London: Spink, 2011) *''Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: the Southern English Kingdoms 757–865'', Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, 80 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) *''Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, vol. 67. British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Coins II: Southern English Coinage from Offa to Alfred, c. 760–c. 880'' (London: British Museum Press, 2016) *(with F. Tinti) ''The Forum Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins/Il ripostiglio dell’Atrium Vestae nel Foro Romano, Bollettino di numismatica'' 55–6 (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2016) * ''Citadel of the Saxons: the Rise of Early London'' (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018) * ''Medieval European Coinage, with a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 8: Britain and Ireland c. 400–1066'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) * '' Early Medieval Britain, c. 500-1000'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) * ''Making Money in the Early Middle Ages '' (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023) His book on ''Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms 757–865'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the 2013 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists First Book Prize. His book ''Making Money in the Early Middle Ages'' won the 2025 Otto Gründler Book Prize.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Naismith, Rory Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century births 21st-century British historians 21st-century British male writers British numismatists Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Historical Society