Anglo saxon biography of rory

Rory Naismith, FRHistS is a British academic, medieval numismatist and historian of Anglo-Saxon England, specialising in economic and monetary history.

He is Professor of Early Medieval English History and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.^[1]

As an undergraduate and postgraduate he studied in the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Trinity College, Cambridge between 2002 and 2009, and between 2009 and 2015 pursued postdoctoral research in with Fitzwilliam Museum and based at Clare College, Cambridge.^[2] He subsequently lectured for four years at King’s College London before returning to the University of Cambridge.^[1]

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 (Cam