Dr Elina Screen
Dr Elina Screen
MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab) – Teaching Fellow
Contact Details
E-mail - ems21
Telephone - +44 (0)1334 462887
Fax - +44 (0)1334 463334
Teaching and Research Interests
Early medieval European and British history, c. 300-1100, especially Carolingian political history and the reign of Lothar I (795-855); other areas of interest are the use of charters and numismatics for the study of political history, and Scandinavian history to 1500, especially the history of Finland. Elina Screen is writing the Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles volumes covering the Norwegian collections of Anglo-Saxon coins. She is General Editor of the Medieval European Coinage project and Senior Editor of the British Numismatic Journal
Main Publications
'Lothar I: the man and his entourage’, in M. Gaillard, M. Margue, A. Dierkens and H. Pettiau (eds), De la mer du Nord à la Méditerranée. Francia Media, une region au cœur de l’Europe. Publications du CLUDEM, 25 (Luxembourg, 2011), 255-74
‘The Norwegian Coin Finds of the Early Viking Age’, Nordisk Numismatisk Årsskrift 2003-2005 (2009), 93-121
‘Anglo-Saxon law and numismatics: a reassessment in the light of Patrick Wormald's The Making of English Law I’, British Numismatic Journal 77 (2007), 150-72
‘The importance of the Emperor: Lothar I and the Frankish Civil War’, Early Medieval Europe 12.I (2003), 25-51
‘Huonon maineen hankkiminen varhaiskeskiajalla: Lothar I:n tapaus’, in Historiallisia Papereita 1. Pyhät ja pahat keskiajalla (1999) [‘Gaining a bad reputation in the Early Middle Ages: the case of Lothar I’, in Historical Papers 1. Saints and sinners in the Middle Ages. Finnish Historical Association internet journal, ISSN 1456-8055]
Administrative Duties
Member of the Equal Opportunities Committee
Teaching Duties
Participates in the teaching of the subhonours courses
ME1003 Transformation and Crisis in the Early Medieval World
ME1006 Scotland and the English Empire, 1070-1500
Honours teaching
The Vikings: Invasion, Settlement and Conversion c.750-1200
Queens and Queenship in Early Mediaeval Europe
The Age of Charlemagne (Special Subject)
Participates in the teaching of the postgraduate course, MS5001 Approaches to Mediaeval Studies