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Myrberg Burström, NanouschkaORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0001-8684-6872
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Myrberg Burström, N. (2025). Crusades, Colonies and Coins: Strategies and Subversion in the Medieval Baltic Sea. In: Nanouschka Myrberg Burström; Fleur Kemmers (Ed.), Money, Coinage and Colonialism: Entangled Exchanges (pp. 222-240). Abingdon: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Crusades, Colonies and Coins: Strategies and Subversion in the Medieval Baltic Sea
2025 (English)In: Money, Coinage and Colonialism: Entangled Exchanges / [ed] Nanouschka Myrberg Burström; Fleur Kemmers, Abingdon: Routledge, 2025, p. 222-240Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In the eleventh century, the Baltic Sea area became a target for Christian crusades – religious enterprises combined with Scandinavian colonial ambitions. The countries of the Baltic Rim were converted, colonised and Europeanised, visibly expressed by, among other things, changed practices of exchange and the introduction of domestic coinages. Less discussed from a crusading and colonial perspective is the large island of Gotland. A wealthy maritime and trade node in the middle of the Baltic, it was by tradition tied to eastern Sweden but also held an autonomous position that is revealed archaeologically through differences in material culture. The chapter investigates the Gotlander’s strategies for maintaining their old ways and networks while trying to steer clear of new demands and tangible threats; the important part coins played in this; and how an analysis of colonial processes may improve the understanding of how local history unfolded.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Routledge, 2025
National Category
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-241356 (URN)10.4324/9781003407621-17 (DOI)2-s2.0-85216672854 (Scopus ID)9781032526386 (ISBN)9781032526393 (ISBN)9781003407621 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-03-28 Created: 2025-03-28 Last updated: 2025-03-28Bibliographically approved
Myrberg Burström, N. (2025). Ett smakfullt sigill. In: Hedenstierna-Jonson; Charlotte et al. (Ed.), Fragment av föremål, platser, kroppar och ord: En vänbok tillägnad Torun Zachrisson (pp. 60-61). Uppsala: Uppsala universitet
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ett smakfullt sigill
2025 (Swedish)In: Fragment av föremål, platser, kroppar och ord: En vänbok tillägnad Torun Zachrisson / [ed] Hedenstierna-Jonson; Charlotte et al., Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2025, p. 60-61Chapter in book (Other academic)
Abstract [sv]

Ett helt unikt medeltida föremål är en sigillstamp av brons från tolvhundratalet som återfanns på gården Duss, Bro sn, på Gotland på sjuttonhundratalet och då användes som brödstämpel.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Uppsala: Uppsala universitet, 2025
Series
Occasional papers in Archaeology, OPIA, ISSN 1100 6358 ; 89
Keywords
Gotland, seals, bread, coins, Springerle, Gotland, sigill, bröd, mynt, Springerle
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology with General Specialisation
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-243654 (URN)9789186145477 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-05-28 Created: 2025-05-28 Last updated: 2025-05-28Bibliographically approved
Myrberg Burström, N. & Leimus, I. (2024). Glimtar från korstågens tid: Ett unikt tidigmedeltida fynd från Kirimäe i Lääne, Estland. Svensk numismatisk tidskrift (4), 81-89
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Glimtar från korstågens tid: Ett unikt tidigmedeltida fynd från Kirimäe i Lääne, Estland
2024 (Swedish)In: Svensk numismatisk tidskrift, ISSN 0283-071X, no 4, p. 81-89Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [sv]

Hösten 2021 gjorde en grupphobbydetektorister sitt livs fynd när de sökte av ett fält i Kirimäe, en by i västra Estland, straxt sydost om Haapsalu (Hapsal) (Fig. 1). Där fann de nämligen en silverskatt, bestående av inte mindre än 124 mynt, silvertenar, smycken och annat ornamenterat silver, totalt 913,3 gram. Platsen undersöktes därefter av det estniska Riksantikvarieämbetet (Karro 2021) som konstaterade att inga spår av en fyndbehållare kunde ses utan att fyndet spridits över några tiotal kvadratmeter på en åker, intill en förhistorisk miljö med bland annat ett par gravhögar. Fyndområdet är något förhöjt i terrängen och jorden mörkfärgad, men inga typiska boplatsfynd eller gravmaterial hittades (keramik, kol, ben eller dylikt), endast några brända granitstenar utan tydlig kontext. Föremålens spridning och skador på dem visar att det sannolikt handlar om ett fynd som överplöjts och då spridits mekaniskt av plogen – okänt när, och om det skett vid ett eller flera tillfällen. Vid en efterundersökning år 2022 återfanns ytterligare 92 mynt samt fler tenar och föremål, vilka förts samman med de övriga föremålen i Estlands historiska museum (Eesti Ajaloomuuseum/EAM) under inventarienumren AM 41 234 och 41 261. (Se Leimus & Saage 2022 samt Leimus 2023 för en komplett sammanställningav fyndet.) Föremålen i fyndet (nu 216 mynt,19–20 tackor och nio ornament eller fragment av sådana) visar sammantaget att det deponerats vid någon tidpunkt runt sekelskiftet 1200. Det är följaktligen inte förvånande att fyndets karaktär balanserar mellan de senvikingatida och tidigmedeltida fynden från Östersjöområdet vid den här tiden. Några föremål och drag i Kirimäefyndet har visat sig vara tämligen unika, och fyndet öppnar i ett slag upp ett spektrum av ny kunskap och nya frågor för numismatiker, arkeologer och historiker. Innehållet i det ovanliga fyndet, deponerat i dåvarande Livland (ungefär nuvarande Estland och Lettland), har tidigare publicerats i estniska sammanhang (Leimus & Saage 2022, Leimus 2023). Vi vill här även presentera det för enskandinavisk läsekrets, dels därför att det belyser även svenska fynd och svensk myntning, dels på grund av dess stora vetenskapliga potential på särskilt två punkter:

— fyndet innehåller en helt unik silverten eller tacka som är märkt (präglad)med en stamp tillhörande den samtida gotländska myntningen,

— fyndet ger viktiga ledtrådar till när biskop Albert av Riga (1201–1229) i nuvarande Lettland inledde sin myntning.

Keywords
Silver-deposit, Gotlandic coinage, Early Middle Ages, Albert of Riga, Latvian coinage, Estonian finds, Gotland, monetary history, Baltic Sea, Depåfynd, gotländska mynt, silverskatt, medeltid, Albert av Riga, lettisk myntning, estniska fynd, Gotland, mynthistoria, Östersjön
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology with General Specialisation
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-231563 (URN)
Available from: 2024-06-25 Created: 2024-06-25 Last updated: 2024-06-27Bibliographically approved
Myrberg Burström, N. & Kemmers, F. (2024). Introduction: Money, Coinage and Colonialism – Entangled Exchanges. In: Nanouschka Myrberg Burström; Fleur Kemmers (Ed.), Money, Coinage and Colonialism: Entangled Exchanges (pp. 1-12). Abingdon: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Introduction: Money, Coinage and Colonialism – Entangled Exchanges
2024 (English)In: Money, Coinage and Colonialism: Entangled Exchanges / [ed] Nanouschka Myrberg Burström; Fleur Kemmers, Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, p. 1-12Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

A central component of colonial history – and of numismatic theory – is how economy and money, and other manifestations of the everyday and hands-on, are part and parcel of the establishment and negotiation of power structures. Money, understood both as “means of exchange” and “means of payment”, plays an important part in the introduction of new practices, value standards, material realities and ways of thinking. Imposing one’s own modes on others is also a way to take control and assert superiority. Commodification processes – the ways that subjects are turned into objects (cf. Appadurai, 1986; Kopytoff, 1986; Thomas, 1991; Weiner, 1992; LiPuma, 1999) – may have a strong impact on power relations and traditional values in the meetings and interactions between the coloniser and the colonised. Money, goods and the prospect of profit may be strong motivations for the establishment or growth of a colony, alongside political, religious or other objectives. In the study of major cultural-historical processes, like colonial projects, means of payment – in particular coinage and related object types – are a prime source. It is therefore surprising that such a key instrument for control is not often discussed from this perspective, and that numismatic scholarship has taken so long to enter into the colonial and post-colonial debates.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Routledge, 2024
National Category
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-241355 (URN)10.4324/9781003407621-1 (DOI)2-s2.0-85216675570 (Scopus ID)9781032526386 (ISBN)9781032526393 (ISBN)9781003407621 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-03-28 Created: 2025-03-28 Last updated: 2025-03-31Bibliographically approved
Myrberg Burström, N., Ewing, A., Hedlund, R., Hårdh, B., Ingvardson, G. T., Jonsson, K., . . . Moesgaard, J. C. (2024). Kan samhällets rätt till ett kulturarvupphöra på grund av stöld?. Fornvännen, 2024(1), 68-70
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kan samhällets rätt till ett kulturarvupphöra på grund av stöld?
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2024 (Swedish)In: Fornvännen, ISSN 0015-7813, E-ISSN 1404-9430, Vol. 2024, no 1, p. 68-70Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [sv]

Den 29 april 2023 såldes en medeltida brakteat präglad för kung Erik Eriksson (1222–1229,1234–1250) på auktion i Stockholm, ett mynt som tidigare stulits från Varnhems kloster. Om stulna föremål säljs utan att man kräver tillbaka dem, betyder det att de helt lagligt kan säljas på nytt i all oändlighet. Detta kommer att påverka allmänhetens synsätt på kulturarvet. Försäljningen av mynten från Varnhem visar att kulturarvet fortfarande inte har tillräckligt skydd.

Keywords
kulturarv, stöld, mynt, juridik
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology with General Specialisation
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-227895 (URN)
Available from: 2024-04-02 Created: 2024-04-02 Last updated: 2024-09-09Bibliographically approved
Myrberg Burström, N. & Kemmers, F. (2024). Money, Coinage and Colonialism: Entangled Exchanges. Abingdon: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Money, Coinage and Colonialism: Entangled Exchanges
2024 (English)Book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This book explores coinage and related object types as an important form of material culture that is crucial to interrogating interactions between coloniser and colonised.

Money, Coinage and Colonialism is a much overdue treatment of coinage and money in debates around ancient and recent colonial practices. It argues that coinage offers unique opportunities to study interactions and effects of the meeting between colonisers and colonised, as well as the economic, political and ideological interactions between colonial communities and the state of origin. It is argued that the study of coins and other means of exchange may reveal less apparent and under-communicated processes, values and discourses in the study of colonial environments and projects, with commonalities informing a larger "global history" approach. A broad picture is built from numerous case studies, spanning from Classical Greek colonies to European colonial enterprises of the Modern period, exploring colonial histories, settings, ideology and resistance. Particular attention is paid to the role of coins in identity construction; to ambiguity, hybridity and creolisation of monetary objects in colonial contexts; and to specific uses of coins that tell of violence, oppression and resistance as well as of networks, acculturation and globalisation.

Composed of chronologically broad and diverse case studies from colonial contexts, this book is for researchers in colonial and post-colonial archaeology as well as archaeological and cultural-historical numismatics.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Abingdon: Routledge, 2024. p. 245
National Category
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-241354 (URN)10.4324/9781003407621 (DOI)2-s2.0-85216688832 (Scopus ID)9781032526386 (ISBN)9781032526393 (ISBN)9781003407621 (ISBN)
Available from: 2025-03-31 Created: 2025-03-31 Last updated: 2025-03-31Bibliographically approved
Moesgaard, J. C., Myrberg Burström, N., Ewing, A., Hedlund, R., Kilger, C., Jonsson, K., . . . Ingvardson, G. (2023). Debatt: Ny försäljning av stulna mynt. Svensk Numismatisk Tidskrift (8), 188-188
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Debatt: Ny försäljning av stulna mynt
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2023 (Swedish)In: Svensk Numismatisk Tidskrift, ISSN 0283-071X, no 8, p. 188-188Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Keywords
Numismatik
National Category
Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-224111 (URN)
Available from: 2023-11-29 Created: 2023-11-29 Last updated: 2023-12-01Bibliographically approved
Myrberg Burström, N. (2022). De første og største fund: De Bornholmske Amatør-arkæologer 25 år, redaktörer: Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen och Brian Christensen [Review]. Nordisk Numismatisk Unions medlemsblad (1), 26-28
Open this publication in new window or tab >>De første og største fund: De Bornholmske Amatør-arkæologer 25 år, redaktörer: Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen och Brian Christensen
2022 (Swedish)In: Nordisk Numismatisk Unions medlemsblad, ISSN 0025-8539, no 1, p. 26-28Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Keywords
metalldetektorfynd, amatörarkeologi
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-203004 (URN)
Available from: 2022-03-21 Created: 2022-03-21 Last updated: 2022-03-23Bibliographically approved
Myrberg Burström, N., Hårdh, B., Ingvardson, G. T., Jonsson, K., Karsten, P., Kilger, C. & Moesgaard, J. C. (2022). Kulturarvet behöver bättre skydd!. Populär arkeologi (2), 10-10
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Kulturarvet behöver bättre skydd!
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2022 (Swedish)In: Populär arkeologi, ISSN 0281-014X, no 2, p. 10-10Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [sv]

Ska kulturarv kunna säljas och köpas som vilken vara som helst? Det tycker nog inte de flesta. I varje fall kunde man förvänta sig att Kulturmiljölagen (KML) skulle fungera som ett mäktigt skydd mot kommersiella krafter. Är det så?

Keywords
Arkeologi, Numismatik, Kulturarv
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-204314 (URN)
Available from: 2022-05-02 Created: 2022-05-02 Last updated: 2022-05-10Bibliographically approved
Myrberg Burström, N. (2021). Building for Glory: Coins in the houses of the Lord in Gränna and Arby, Sweden. In: Svein H. Gullbekk; Christoph Kilger; Steinar Kristensen; Håkon Roland (Ed.), Coins in Churches: Archaeology, Money and Religious Devotion in Medieval Northern Europe (pp. 292-331). London: Routledge
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Building for Glory: Coins in the houses of the Lord in Gränna and Arby, Sweden
2021 (English)In: Coins in Churches: Archaeology, Money and Religious Devotion in Medieval Northern Europe / [ed] Svein H. Gullbekk; Christoph Kilger; Steinar Kristensen; Håkon Roland, London: Routledge, 2021, p. 292-331Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This chapter focuses on two general issues of relevance to the investigation of coin finds in church buildings based on case studies of two medieval churches, Arby and Gränna, in the province of Småland, Sweden.

Firstly, there is the issue involving therelationship between coin use in churches and the ownership of the church, whichcould be in the hands of either private patrons or parish congregations. What differencesin coin use might have resulted from the different ways a church might be managed? Can the coins help us to see such changes? Of central importance to this line ofinvestigation is the notion that coins reflect and are part of their historical context, butalso affected people’s everyday and religious lives (e.g. used for indulgences, masses,embellishment of church space, opening up interior space and power relations).

Secondly, there is the relationship between coin finds from churches and general coin use in society. How should differences in coin find patterns and fluctuations in the intensity of deposition be interpreted? To what extent are patterns from coin finds in churches useful for extrapolating and for interpretations of the role of coins outside of that specific context? Here, evaluations of the depositional processes and of the composition of the coin finds are of great consequence. This line of enquiry seeks to push beyond the common view that the church is “a society in miniature,” partly accepting it, but also underlining the unique character of the ecclesiastical context and of the events taking place in it, and thus the particular conditions for artefacts found there.

The results of this study of two Småland churches indicate, firstly, that coin use inside churches in Sweden only took off in a significant way with the formation of parishes in the thirteenth century, when congregations took over the responsibility for the church. Secondly, that coin use in churches was largely connected with offerings, and with certain events, such as the celebration of a designated saint’s day and fundraising for building projects. This raises the question of whether, and in what ways, fluctuations in the coin material found in ecclesiastical contexts may be used to discuss societal and economic phenomena outside of the church walls.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Routledge, 2021
Series
Religion and Money in the Middle Ages ; 4
Keywords
Coin finds, coins, numismatics, archaeological excavation, church finds, economy, religious practice, Trovate di monete, monete, numismatica, scavi araeologici, trovate in chiese, economia, pratiche religiose, Myntfynd, mynt, numismatik, arkeologisk undersökning, kyrkofynd, ekonomi, religiös praktik
National Category
History and Archaeology
Research subject
Archaeology; History; History of Religion
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-195141 (URN)10.4324/9781003094814-13 (DOI)9780367557065 (ISBN)
Projects
Religion and Money: Economy of Salvation in the Middle Ages
Funder
The Research Council of Norway, 222545
Available from: 2021-08-09 Created: 2021-08-09 Last updated: 2023-11-29Bibliographically approved
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