1. FLAME
FRAMING THE LATE ANTIQUE
AND EARLY MEDIEVAL ECONOMY
APRIL 29-30, 2016, (EAST PYNE 010)
AN ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP
WILL TAKE PLACE ON MAY 1, 2016
(DICKINSON HALL 211)
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COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY
OF LATE ANTIQUITY
CONFERENCE
Cosponsored by:
Department of Rare Books and Special Collections Firestone Library,
Center for Collaborative History, Department of History,
Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and
Persian Gulf Studies, PIIRS (Princeton Institute for International and
Regional Studies), Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies with the support
of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund, Program in the
Ancient World, Graduate School, Department of Art and Archaeology,
Program in Medieval Studies, Center for Digital Humanities

2. Friday, April 29, 2016
Coins, Minting and the Economy in Late Antiquity
and the Early Middle Ages
1:00 p.m. Alan Stahl and Lee Mordechai Introduction and
“Overview of FLAME”
1:30 p.m. Peter Sarris, “Coinage and Economic Romanitas
in the Early Middle Ages”
2:00 p.m. Stefan Heidemann, “The Apex of Late Antiquity -
Changing Concepts of Monetarization in the Early
Islamic Empire”
2:30 p.m. Coffee Break
2:45 p.m. Florin Curta, “Remarks on coins, forts, and
commercial exchanges in the 6th and early 7th
Century Balkans”
3:15 p.m. Vivien Prigent, “A Dark Age ‘Success Story’:
Byzantine Sicily's Monetary Economy”
3:45 p.m. Marek Jankowiak, “The Invisible Part of the
Iceberg: Early Medieval Imitative Coinages”
4:15 p.m. Coffee Break
4:30 p.m. Jonathan Jarrett, “The Marriage of Numismatics
and X-Rays: Difficulties with the
X-ray-fluorescence-based Study of the
Early Medieval Mediterranean Economy”
5:00 p.m. Richard Hobbs, “Hoards of Gold and Silver in the
Late Roman Empire”
Saturday, April 30, 2016
FLAME, Phase 1: Minting
9:30 a.m. Lee Mordechai and Alan Stahl – “Concluding
FLAME's Phase I: Minting in a Transitional
Economy”
10:30 a.m. Andrei Gandila, “Legacy of Rome: Money in the
Early Byzantine Balkans and Asia Minor”
11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:15 a.m. Jane Sancinito, “Roman Antioch: Caesars and
Excavation Coins”
11:45 a.m. Luca Zavagno, “Coinage from the Eastern
Mediterranean from an Insular Perspective”
12:15 p.m. Tommi Lankila, “Coinage in the South Central
Mediterranean in Late Antiquity and the Early
Middle Ages”
12:45 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. Paolo Tedesco, “The Political Economy of
Accommodation and Monetary Circulation:
the Case of Gothic Italy”
2:30 p.m. Alejandro G. Sinner and Ruth Pliego, “Minting in
the Iberian Peninsula, 350-725 A.D.”
3:00 p.m. Merle Eisenberg, “Minting Changes in Southern
Gallic Coinage”
3:30 p.m. Coffee break
3:45 p.m. Jan Van Doren, “Merovingian Gold Coinage in the
Low Countries”
4:15 p.m. Rory Naismith, “From Feast to Famine and Back
Again: Mints and Money in Britain from the Fourth
to the Eighth Century”
4:45 p.m. Roundtable and conclusions
Sunday, May 1, 2016
FLAME, Phase 2: Circulation (a workshop)
9:00 a.m. Discussion of FLAME’s Phase II: Circulation
12:30 p.m. End of Session