Framing the Late Antique and Early Medieval Economy, Princeton University, April 29–May 1, 2016

The FLAME (Framing the Late Antique and early Medieval Economy) project involves an international group of scholars investigating the process of change in the economy of the Mediterranean and surrounding regions during the transitional period from antiquity to the early Middle Ages in the Byzantine, Islamic and European spheres and while using coinage as a proxy. It is a project of the Princeton University Numismatic Collection. The FLAME project will hold its first conference to conclude its first stage (minting) at Princeton, 29-30 April, bringing together our participants and several experts to discuss our results in a broad context. At the same opportunity project participants will also provide a preview of work on the second stage of the project (circulation).

Schedule speakers include Florin Curta (University of Florida), Richard Hobbs (The British Museum), Stefan Heidemann (University of Hamburg), Marek Jankowiak (Oxford University), Jonathan Jarrett (University of Leeds), Cécile Morrisson (Collège de France), Vivien Prigent (Centre d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, Orient et Méditerranée) and Peter Sarris (Cambridge University). The conference will be accompanied by a special exhibit of relevant coins from the Princeton University Numismatic Collection.

The conference is open to the public; free advance registration (including lunch on April 30) and information may be had from the program's director, Lee Mordechai.