Rory Naismith

• Numismatics
• Anglo-Saxon England
• Economic history

Rory Naismith FRHistS
Born	Edinburgh, Scotland
Academic background
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Thesis	History and Coinage in Southumbrian England, c. 750-865  (2009)
Doctoral advisor	Simon Keynes and Mark Blackburn
Institutions	Clare College, Cambridge King's College London Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
Notable works	Making Money in the Early Middle Ages

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 at the Fitzwilliam Museum and was 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 (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. ^[3] His book Making Money in the Early Middle Ages won the 2025 Otto Gründler Book Prize. ^[4]

References

1. ASNAC Profile, University of Cambridge, retrieved 2024-10-14
2. Corpus Christi Profile, University of Cambridge, retrieved 2024-10-14
3. Cambridge Blog, University of Cambridge, retrieved 2024-10-14
4. Gründler Book Prize, Western Michigan University, retrieved 2025-05-12