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NJ, 08544
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Professional Positions
The American Numismatic
Society, Curator of Medieval Coins and of Medals, 1980 - 2000
Università
di Venezia, Visiting Professor, 1987-88
University of Notre Dame,
Visiting Professor, summer 2002
Co-Director, Michael of
Rhodes Project, The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
at MIT, 2002 to present
Lecturer, Department of
Classics,
Curator of Numismatics,
Education
Ph.D.
in History, 1977
Research Grants, Fellowships
and Awards
Centre
de Recherches Archéologiques Médiévales (Caen), 1974
American Numismatic Society,
Summer Seminar Fellowship, 1975
Gladys K. Delmas
Foundation, Grant for Research, 1981, 1983, 1985
Robinson-Kraay Fellow,
Dumbarton Oaks Research
Center and Istituto Ellenico di Venezia, Research
Grant, 1997
Association of American Publishers' Professional/Scholarly
Publishing
Award in Economics, 2001,
for Zecca
The
National Endowment for the Humanities, Principal Investigator, grant for the
publication of the Michael of Rhodes manuscript, 2003-2006
The
National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator, grant for the publication
of the Michael of Rhodes manuscript, 2003-2006
The
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fellow, 2008
Publications
Books
The Merovingian
Coinage of the Region of
Metz, Publications d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie de
l'Université Catholique de Louvain 30, Numismatica Lovaniensia 5 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1982).
The Venetian Tornesello: A Medieval Colonial Coinage, American Numismatic
Society, Numismatic Notes and Monographs 163 (New York, 1985).
The Medal in America, editor, Coinage of the Americas Conference,
Proceedings 4 (New York, 1988).
Mérovingiens et royaumes
barbares, Collections Numismatiques, Fonds Bourgey (Paris:Errance, 1994).
The Medal in America, Vol. 2, editor, Coinage of the Americas
Conference, Proceedings 13 (New York. 1999).
The Documents of Angelo de Cartura
and Donato Fontanella;
Venetian Notaries in Fourteenth-Century Crete, editor, Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collection (
Zecca; The Mint of
Zecca, Italian
translation by Julian Scudder (
The Rebirth
of Antiquity: Numismatics, Archaeology, and Classical Studies in the Culture of
the Renaissance, editor, also
published as Princeton University Library
Chronicle, 79, 2 (Winter, 2008) (
The Book of Michael of Rhodes, ed. with Pamela O. Long
and David McGee, 3 vols. (
Medieval European Coinage, Vol.
13
The Nexus of Wealth and Power in
Medieval
Articles
“The
Merovingian CA Coinage of
“A
Numerical Taxonomy of Merovingian Coins,”Computers and the Humanities, 12, 1-2 (1978), 201-14.
“The Melgorian
Penny,” Medieval Coins, 16 (1978), 3-4.
“La
médaille de l'industrie américaine,” in Médailles:
XIX Congrès de la Fédération Internationale de la Médaille (Florence,
1983), pp. 121-24.
“The Grasis
Coinage of the Grand Duchy of
“Numerical Taxonomy and
Medieval Coinage,” in Problems of
Medieval Coinage in the Iberian Area, ed. M. G. Marques (
“The American Industrial
Medal,” The Numismatist, 97, 10 (Oct.
1984), 2066-73. Recipient of special Heath Literary Award
of the ANA.
“Three Parcels of Venetian
Grossi in the ANS Collection,” Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, 86 (1984), 181-96.
“Lauffer's
Medal Cabinet,” Medallic Sculpture, 1
(1985), 9-13.
“The Circulation of European
Coinage in the Crusader States,” in The
Meeting of Two Worlds, ed. V. Goss, Medieval Institute, Studies in Medieval
Culture 21 (Kalamazoo, 1986), pp. 85-102.
“Groat,”
Dictionary of the Middle
Ages, 5:679-80 (New York, 1985).
“Venetian Coinage in Medieval Greece,” in Économies méditerranéenes,
équilibres et intercommunications, Actes du IIe Colloque International
d'Histoire, ed. L. Droulia (
“A
Fourteenth-Century Venetian Coin Portrait,” American
Numismatic
“Coins/Monnaies”,
in
“Mints and Money,
“The American Numismatic
Society and the Beaux-Arts Medal,” in The Beaux-Arts Medal
in
“Venetian Coinage: Variations in
Production,” in Rythmes de la production
monétaire de l'antiquité à nos jours, ed G.
Depeyrot, T. Hackens, and G. Moucharte,
Numisatica Lovaniensia 7
(Louvain-la-Neuve, 1987), pp. 467-81.
“The Mint of
“The Analysis of a Hoard of
Venetian Torneselli,” with Peter P. Gaspar and Mary F. Striegel,
in Metallurgy in Numismatics, Vol. 2,
ed. W. A. Oddy (
“Monastic
Minting in the Middle Ages,” in Medieval
Monasticism, ed. A. MacLeish (
“A Hoard
of Medieval Pennies from
“Numismatics and Medieval
Archaeology,” in Medieval Archaeology,
ed. C. Redman (
“Italian Sources for the
Coinage of Cilician Armenia,” in Essays Dedicated in Honor of Paul Z. Bedoukian, ed. Y. T. Nercessian, Armenian Numismatic Journal, 15 (1989),
59-66.
“The Black
Death and the Mint of
“European
Coinage in
“Coinage in the Name of
Medieval Women,” in Medieval Women and
the Sources of Medieval History, ed. J. Rosenthal (Athens, GA,1990), pp. 321-41.
“FIDEM '90 .... Biennial of
the Medal,” Sculpture Review, 39, 3
(1990), 16-17.
“Indian Peace Medals,
Official and Unofficial,” Médailles: XXIIème Congrès de la Fédération Internationale de la
Médaille (Helsinki, 1990), pp. 38-48.
“Marcel Jovine,”
in Sculpture Review, 41,1 (1992), 16-18.
“American Indian Peace
Medals of the Colonial Period,” in Money
of Pre-Federal
“American Indian Peace
Medals of the Colonial Period in the Collection of the American Numismatic
Society,” with William Scully, in Money
of Pre-Federal
“History
of the New York Numismatic Club, 1908-1991” (New York, 1992), editor of revised
edition.
“The Nature of the Sutton Hoo Coin Parcel,” in Voyage
to the Other World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo, ed.
C. Kendall and P. Wells, Medieval Studies at Minnesota 5, (Minneapolis, 1992),
pp. 3-14.
“The Date of the Sutton Hoo Coins,” with W. A. Oddy, in Sutton Hoo: Fifty
Years After, ed. R. Farrell and C. N. de Vegvar,
American Early Medieval Studies 2 (Oxford, OH, 1992), 129-47.
“The First Coins in the
“The First
Coins in the
“White-Faced
Greenbacks,” The New York Times, 11
December 1992, p. A-39.
“Addendum” to Medieval Coins in the Christian J. Thomsen
Collection, with Allen G. Berman, rev. and trans. ed., South Salem, NY:Attic Books, 1992, pp. 324-341.
“Mint Masters and Mint Marks
in the Middle Ages,” Revue Belge de Numismatique, 138
(1992), xcvii-cii.
“A Fourteenth-Century
Venetian Coin Pattern,” in Moneta e Non
Moneta, Rivista Italiana di Numismatica, 95 (1993), 587-604.
“Unknown Artist with the
Initials HG (?), Martin Luther,” in The
Currency of Fame; Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, ed Stephen K. Scher (New
York: Abrams, 1994), pp.240-41, #101a; “Hans Kels
(?), Barbara Reihing,” ibid, p.244, #102; “
“The
“Office Holding and the Mint
in Early Renaissance
“The
Earliest Known Medalists: The Sesto Brothers of
“Coins from the Excavations
at La Isabela, D.R., the First European Colony in the
“Cast or Struck: A Medallic
Option,” Proceedings of the XXIV Congress of the Fédération
Internationale de la Médaille,
“Monete
dei Gonzaga nella Collezione della American Numismatic Society,” in I
Gonzaga; Monete Arte Storia , ed. S. Balbi
de Caro (
“The Deathbed Oration of
Doge Mocenigo and the Mint of
“Medals of the Comitia Americana Series in the Collections of the American Numismatic
Society and other Public Institutions,” in Coinage of America in the Period of
Confederation, ed. Philip L. Mossman, Coinage of the Americas Conference
Proceedings 9 (New York, 1996), pp. 261-346.
“Victor D. Brenner and the
American Numismatic Society,” in Italiam Fato Profugi; Numismatic Studies
Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza Clain-Stefanelli , Numismatics
Lovaniensia 12 (Louvain-la-Neuve,
1996), pp. 317-26.
“Minting and Money,” in Medieval Latin
Studies: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide , ed. F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg (
“
“Coins and Coinage” and “Mints and Minting” in Medieval
“The Coinage of
“The
Circulation of Medieval Venetian Coinages,” in Lucia Travaini, ed., Moneta locale, moneta straniera: Italia ed
Europa XI-XV secolo, Società Numismatica Italiana, Collana di Numismatica e
Scienze Affini 2 (Milan, 1999), pp. 87-111.
“The
Grosso of Enrico Dandolo,” in Mélanges
Tony Hackens, Revue Belge de Numismatique, 145,
(1999), 261-68.
“Mint and Medal in the
Renaissance,” in Perspectives on the
Renaissance Medal, Stephen K. Scher, ed.,
“Coinage” in Medieval Archaeology, An Encyclopedia, ed. Pam J. Crabtree (
“The Orte
Hoard of Tuscan Grossi,” in Proceedings
of the XIIth International Numismatic Congress (
“A Prosopography of Venetian Mint Officials,” Medieval Prosopography, 21 (2000),
41-131.
“The Venetian Mint in the Age of the Black
Death,” in Material Culture and Cultural
Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Curtis Perry,
Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 5 (Turnhout
(Belgium), 2001), pp. 41-57.
“Numismatic
Portraiture in Renaissance Venice,” Quaderni
Ticinesi di Numismatica e Antichità Classiche, 30 (2001), 305-12.
“Genova
e Venezia, La moneta dal XII al XIV secolo,” in Genova, Venezia, il levante nei secoli XII-XIV, ed. G. Ortalli
and D. Puncuh (
“Coinage and Money in the Latin Empire of
“Venetian Commerce in the
Later Middle Ages: Feast or Famine?,” in Medieval Cultures in Contact, ed.
Richard F. Gyug (
“Ducat,” and “Money Changing,” in The
“Coinage,”
in “Origins of the European Economy:
a Debate with Michael McCormick,” ed. E. James, Early Medieval
“Coins and Mints” in Medieval
“Technological Innovation
and Control at the Medieval Venetian Mint,” in Villard’s Legacy: Studies in medieval technology, science and art in
memory of Jean Gimpel, ed. M.-T. Zenner (Aldershot
“The
Princeton University Library Numismatic Collection,” with Brooks E. Levy, Comte
rendu de la Commission Internationale
de Numismatique, 51 (2004), 20-24.
“The Diplomatic Medal,”
“Devoted to Dogs,” The
Numismatist, 118, 8 (August 2005), 34-37.
“Revolutionary War Medal
Discovered at
“Introduction,” Corpus Numismatum Omnium Romanorum Pontificum, ed.
Adolfo Modesti, 4 (
“Coinage,” Women and Gender in
Medieval Europe, ed. Susan Stuard, Margaret Schaus and
Thomas Izbicki (
“The
“Vattemare and
Numismatics” in The Extravagant
Ambassador: The True Story of Alexandre Vattemare, the French Ventriloquist Who Changed the World,
ed. Earle Havens and Pierre-Alain Tilliette (Boston:
Boston Public Library, 2007), pp. 200-05.
"Mashiko: The Medallist as Sculptor, Teacher and Marketer," The Medal, 51 (Autumn,
2007), 33-37.
“European Minting and the Balance of
Payments with the Islamic World in the Later Middle Ages,” in Relazione economiche tra Europa e mondo
islamico, secc. XIII-XVIII, ed. Simonetta
Cavaciocchi, Istituto Francesco Datini, Settimane di Studi 37 (Prato, 2007), pp.
889-904.
“Coins for Trade and for
Wages; The Development of Coinage Systems in Medieval
“Coin and Punishment in
Medieval
“Rome during Avignon, The
Silver Coinage of Rome in the Fourteenth Century,” in M. Asolati and G. Gorini,
eds., I ritrovamenti monetali e i
processi inflativi nel mondo antico e medievale, Numismatica Patavina 9 (Padua, 2008), pp. 151-69.
“The Venetian Mint after the
Black Death,” in Medieval
“The
Origins of the Struck Medal,” in Médailles, Proceedings
of the XXX FIDEM Congress (
“Numismatics in
the Renaissance,” in Alan M. Stahl, ed., The
Rebirth of Antiquity: Numismatics, Archaeology, and Classical Studies in the
Culture of the Renaissance, editor, also published as Princeton University Library Chronicle, 79, 2 (Winter,
2008) (
“Michael of Rhodes, Mariner
in Service to Medieval Venice,” in The Book of Michael of Rhodes, ed.
Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M. Stahl, 3 vols. (
In
Press
“Zecca
di Venezia,” in Guida per lo studio delle
zecche italiane medievali e moderni, ed. L. Travaini (forthcoming, 2010).
“Money and
Coinage,” in The
“The circulation of medieval
Venetian coinage in the Balkans,” in Coinage in the Balkans, 9th
to 14th Centuries, ed. Julian Baker and Ernest Oberländer Târnoveanu (forthcoming,
2010).
“The Book of Michael of Rhodes and the Merchant Manual
Tradition,” in Le manuel de marchand au Moyen Âge, ed. by M. Bompaire and C. Morrisson,
Cahiers Ernest Babelon (forthcoming, 2010).
“The Transformation of the West,” in
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman
Coinage, ed. by W. E. Metcalf (forthcoming, 2010).
“
“Michael of Rhodes and the Birth of
the Mariner’s Manual,” The Social History of he Sea, special issue of The
Journal of Early Modern History 14,
1-2 (2010).
Bisson, Thomas N., Conservation of Coinage , in Speculum, 57 (1982), 121-23.
Tzamalis, Anastasios, Ta Nomismata
tes Phragkokratias, 1184-1566,
in Numismatics
International, 16 (1982), 126-27.
Spaulding, James E., Coins of the Realm, in Speculum,
60 (1985), 1065-66.
Pastoureau,
Michel, Jetons, méreaux, médailles, in M Speculum, 62 (1987), 514.
Witthöft, Harald, Münzfuss, Kleingewichte,
pondus Karoli und die Grundlegung des nordeuropäischen
Mass- und Gewichtswesens in
fränkischer Zeit,
in Speculum,
62 (1987), 754-56.
Il “Capitolar dalle Broche”
della Zecca di Venezia, ed. G. Bonfiglio
Dosio, and Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller, Money and Banking in Medieval and
Renaissance Venice, in Numismatic
Chronicle, 147 (1987), 194-96.
Balard,
Michel, et al.,
Les Italiens à Byzance, in American
Historical Review, 93
(1988), 1313-14.
Grierson, Philip and Mark Blackburn,
Medieval European Coinage, 1 The Early Middle Ages, in Speculum, 63 (1988), 933-35.
Spufford,
Peter, Money and its Use in Medieval
Kovács, Laszló, Münzen aus der Ungarischen Landnahmezeit, in American
Journal of Numismatics, Ser. 2, 2 (1990), 186-89.
Cipolla,
Carlo, Il fiorino e il quattrino, La moneta a Milano nel Quattrocento, and La moneta a Firenze nel Cinquecento, in American Journal of Numismatics, Ser. 2, 3-4 (1992), 252-55.
Gemmill, Elizabeth and Mayhew, Nicholas, Changing Values in Medieval
Harl, Kenneth W., Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to
A.D. 700 in Speculum, 74, 2
(1999), 423-4.
Grierson, Philip and Lucia Travaini,
Medieval European Coinage, Vol 14,
Cunnally, John. Images of the Illustrious; The Numismatic
Presence in the Renaissance in Renaissance
Quarterly, 53, 3 (2000), 893-4.
Potin, V.M., Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, 50, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, in The Medieval Review
[online]. http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/ 01.02.03.
Kohl,
Benjamin G., ed. The Records of the Venetian
Senate on Disk, 1335-1400, in The Medieval Review [online].http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/ 02.11.06.
Gannon, Anna, The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage, in The Medieval Review
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Gillett, Andrew, ed., On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches
to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages in Speculum, 79, 4 (2004), 1075-78.
Wood, Diana, ed., Medieval Money Matters, in The Medieval Review
[online], http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/ 05.08.15.
Metlich, Michael Andreas, The Coinage of Ostrogothic
Kamp, Norbert, Moneta Regis: Königliche
Münzstätten und königliche Münzpolitik in der Stauferzeit, in Speculum,
83 (2008), 713-15.
Falchetta, Piero, ed., Fra Mauro’s World Map in Speculum, forthcoming, 2008.
Papers and Lectures
American Medallic Sculpture
Association (1988), (1989), (1992), (1997), (1998), (1999)
American Numismatic
Association, Numismatic Theatre (1991), (1997)
American Numismatic Society,
Stack Memorial Lecture (1983)
Archaeological
Archivio
di Stato Venezia, Scuola Archivistica (1988)
Center for Early Modern and
Renaissance Studies,
Center for Medieval and
Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY (1980), (1983)
Center for Medieval Studies,
Center for Neo-Hellenic
Research,
Centre
National de Recherches Scientifiques, Orléans (2004)
Centre
National de Recherches Scientifiques, Paris (1986)
Centro
Internazionale d'Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantua (1995)
Charles
Homer Haskins Society (2005)
Circolo
Italo-Britannico di Venezia (1981), (1984), (1986), (1988), (1992)
Circolo
Numismatico di Padova (1986)
Classical
Numismatic Society of the Delaware Valley (1995)
Department of History,
Department of History,
Dibner Institute for the
History of Science and Technology at M.I.T. (2005)
Economic History Association
(1982), (1984)
Economic History
Seminar, Columbia University (1996)
Fédération
Internationale de la Médaille (1983), (1990), (1994), (2007)
Great Eastern Numismatic
Association (1981)
Greek, Roman and Byzantine
Studies Conference,
Hudson
River Museum, Yonkers (1995)
Institut
Supérieur d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, Université Catholique de
Louvain (1981)
Institute on Anglo-Saxon
Instituto Politécnico
de Santarém (1984)
International Congress on
Byzantine Studies (2006)
International Congress on
Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University (1977),
(1978), (1981), (1982), (1985), (1987), (1988), (1989), (1991), (1995), (1997),
(Loew Lecturer, 1999), (2000), (2002), (2003),
(2004), (2005), (2007), (2008), Plenary lecturer, 2009)
International Institute for
Social History,
International
Numismatic Congress (1986), (1991), (1997)
Istituto
di Archeologia, Università di Padova (1981), (1994)
Istituto Francesco Datini,
Italian Embassy Symposium on
Renaissance
Lithuanian Numismatic
Association (1983)
Medieval
Medieval Club of
Medieval Institute,
Medieval Studies Colloquium,
Medieval Studies Group,
Medieval Studies Conference,
Medieval Studies Seminar,
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Token and Medal
Society (1983)
National Sculpture Society
(1989)
Pen and Brush Club (1991)
Program in Hellenic Studies,
Renaissance
Society of America (2001)
Società
Italiana di Numismatica (1988)
Società
Ligure di Storia Patria – Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (2000)
Society for Medieval
Numismatics (1980), (1988), (1992)
Society for the Study of the
Crusades (1988)
Symposium on Medieval
Rhodes,
Trout Run Medals Camp
(1997), (1999)
Tulane
University (1999)
Università
di Padova, Economic History Conference (2007)
Professional Organizations
American Historical
Association
American Medallic Sculpture
Association (President 1984-88; Board of Directors, 1988-present)
American Numismatic
Association
American Numismatic Society
(Fellow)
Ateneo
AVISTA (Association Villard
de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of
Medieval Technology, Science and Art) (Board of Directors 1995-present)
Columbia
University Medieval Studies
Seminar
Fédération
Internationale de la Médaille (U.S.A. Delegate,
1987-2000, member of Comité Exécutif, 1989-2000)
Italian Art Society
Jug Tavern of Sparta, Inc.
(President, 1999-present)
Medieval
National Sculpture Society (Councillor 1991-96; 1998-2001)
New York Numismatic Club
(President 1986-87; Historian 1990-present)
Renaissance Society of
Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin
East
Exhibitions organized and curated
“American Numismatic Design,
1892-1922,” permanent exhibit, American Numismatic Society (1990)
“The Beaux-Arts Medal in
Saltus Award winners
for lifetime achievement in the art of the medal, one-artist shows, ANS (1983),
(1984), (1986), (1987), (1988), (1990), (1991), (1992), (1993), (1994), (1995),
(1996), (1997), (1998), (1999)
“Biennial of the Medal,”
Fédération Internationale de la Médaille (1985), (1987), (1990), (1992),
(1994), (1996), (1998)
“First AMSA Exhibition,” American Medallic Sculpture
Association (1984)
“The Medals of the American
Revolution,” ANS (1991)
“Coinage of the Crusades,”
“The Medals of the Columbian
Exposition,” ANS (1992)
“The Medals of
“Medieval Coinage, Literary
and Literal,” Medieval
“The Medals of the
“The Medals of Victor D.
Brenner,” ANS (1995)
“The English Medal,” ANS
(1996)
“American Women Medallists,” ANS (1996)
“The American Medal, 1793 to
1848,” ANS (1996)
“Medieval Trade Coinages,”
Medieval
“Coinage in the Age of Innocent III,”
“Recent Acquisitions,”
“The Henry Lee Medal,” The Lure of the Library,
Firestone Library (2005-6)
“The
mint of
“Numismatics in the Renaissance,” Firestone Library,