Michael Crawford (historian)

Michael Hewson Crawford FBA (born December 7, 1939 in Twickenham ) is a British ancient historian and numismatist . He is the author of the standard work on the coinage of the Roman Republic, Roman Republican Coinage (RRC).

Michael Crawford was taught at St Paul's School and Oriel College , Oxford. He became a fellow at Christ College, Cambridge in 1964. From 1969 to 1986 he was a lecturer in ancient history. From 1986 to 2005 he taught at University College London , where he has been retired since 2005. His scientific work deals with the Roman Republic, the coinage of the Roman Republic and the sources of ancient history. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1980 and a member of the Academia Europaea since 1995 .

Publications

• The Roman Republican Coinage. 2 volumes. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1974, ISBN 0-521-07492-4 .
• Numismatics. In: Michael Crawford (Ed.): Sources for ancient history (= The sources of history. Studies in the uses of historical evidence. ). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1983, ISBN 0-521-24782-9 , pp. 185-233.
• The Roman republic. Harvester Press et al., Hassocks et al. 1978, ISBN 0-85527-761-0 (In German: The Roman Republic (= dtv. 4404). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-423-04404-7 ).
• Coinage and money under the Roman republic. Italy and the mediterranean economy (= The library of numismatics. ). Methuen, London 1985, ISBN 0-416-12300-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Crawford in the catalog of the German National Library

Remarks

1. ↑ Membership website British Academy
2. ^ Membership website Academia Europaea