Mark Blackburn
Mark Blackburn (actually: Mark Alistair Sinclair Blackburn ; born January 5, 1953 in Camberley ; † September 1, 2011 ) was a British numismatist .
Life
Mark Blackburn, born in Camberley in 1953, studied law at Oxford University from 1971–1975 , graduating with a BA , followed by an MA in 1978 . Various activities as a lawyer followed. In 1982 he was appointed Research Associate in the Faculty of History at Cambridge University , and later a Senior Research Associate. In 1991 he became department head at the coin cabinet of the university-sponsored Fitzwilliam Museum . With that he switched to a subject that had interested him since he was 14. Three years later he did his doctorate in Cambridge at Gonville and Caius College , to which he had been assigned since 1990 and which made him a Fellow in 2005, with the thesis "Anglo-Saxon and Norman Monetary History" for a Ph.D. From 2004 until his death he taught numismatics and monetary history at the University of Cambridge and supervised research students in their work on early medieval numismatics.
Blackburn's main interests lay in early to high medieval numismatics, with an emphasis on the British Isles , as well as the Viking Age connections between Scandinavia and England , especially in Norway . He was associated with both British scientifically oriented numismatic societies, the British Numismatic Society (President 2004–2008) and the Royal Numismatic Society. In 2008 he received the Sanford Saltus Medal and the Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society . From his mentor Philip Grierson he took over the management of the research project "Medieval European Coinage".
He was also the editor of the series "Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles". Blackburn initiated the computerized register of early medieval individual finds in the British Isles in Corpus of Early Medieval Coin Finds, which records all individual finds, including metal detector finds, from the period between around 410 and 1180.
Web links
- Obituary by Rory Naismith, The Guardian, Sept. 29, 2011
- Obituary in: The Telegraph, October 25, 2011
- Medal with the portrait of Blackburn in the interactive catalog of the Münzkabinett Berlin
- Digitized items by Mark Blackburn in the Digital Library Numis
Publications (selection)
- Editor with David M. Metcalf : Viking-Age Coinage in the Northern Lands. The Sixth Oxford Symposium on Coinage and Monetary History (= British Archaeological Reports. International Series. 122). 2 volumes. BAR, Oxford 1981, ISBN 0-86054-150-9 .
- with Christina Colyer, Michael Dolley: Early Medieval Coins from Lincoln and its Shire. c. 770-1100 (= The Archeology of Lincoln. 6, 1). Council for British Archeology, London 1983, ISBN 0-906780-26-8 .
- with Philip Grierson : Medieval European Coinage. Volume 1: The Early Middle Ages (5th – 10th centuries). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1986, ISBN 0-521-26009-4 .
- Publisher: Anglo-Saxon Monetary History. Essays in Memory of Michael Dolley. Leicester University Press, Leicester 1986, ISBN 0-7185-1239-1 .
- Editor with David N. Dumville: Kings, Currency and Alliances. History and Coinage of Southern England in the Ninth Century (= Studies in Anglo-Saxon History. 9). Boydell Press, Woodbridge 1998, ISBN 0-85115-598-7 .
- with Kenneth Jonsson : Supplement to Part VI (Anglo-Norman Pennies). In: Fran Colman: Anglo-Saxon Coins. Edward the Confessor and Harold II, 1042-1066 (= Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles. 54: Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm. 5). Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-726233-7 , pp. 179-212.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Blackburn, Mark |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blackburn, Mark Alistair Sinclair |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British numismatist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th January 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Camberley |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 1, 2011 |