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Dr Elina Screen

	Teaching Fellow in Early Medieval History Contact Details: Email: es142@le.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2784 Office hours: Fridays 11.15-1.15, or by appointment at other times

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Research Summary My research centres on early medieval Europe, c. 300-1100, particularly Anglo-Saxon England, the Frankish kingdom under the Carolingians, and Scandinavia in the Viking age. I use the sources produced by rulers, especially royal charters and coins, to examine how rulers maintained and exercised power in the early middle ages. My research has focused on the career of the neglected Carolingian emperor Lothar I (795-855) in particular. I also work on Anglo-Saxon history and numismatics, and have explored contacts between Norway and Britain in the Viking age.
Current Research Projects I am producing the two-volume catalogue of Anglo-Saxon coins in Norwegian collections for the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles series. I am also currently working towards the publication of the first monograph on Lothar I.
Recent Publications 'Anglo-Saxon law and numismatics: a reassessment in the light of Patrick Wormald’s The Making of English Law I’ (British Numismatic Journal 77, 2007, forthcoming early 2008) ‘Coins and Mints in Carolingian and Ottonian Europe, 9th-10th centuries’, The Atlas of Medieval Europe (2nd ed, 2007), 46-7 ‘The importance of the Emperor: Lothar I and the Frankish Civil War’, Early Medieval Europe 12.1 (2003), 25-51 ‘The ‘Ratto’ Parcel: A Find of Eleventh-Century French Coins from Italy’, Coin Register, Numismatic Chronicle 2003, 349-53
Teaching, Supervision and Administration HS1015 Monarchy and Society HS2301 Anglo-Saxon England: the Kings and Kingdoms of Early England AD 600-900 HS3669 The Vikings in Britain, c.800-1100 Please contact me if you would like to discuss a third-year dissertation or research on an early medieval topic, particularly Anglo-Saxon England, Francia, or the Vikings.