Rory Naismith
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| name = Rory Naismith
| honorific_suffix = FRHistS
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| birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland
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| alma_mater = Trinity College, Cambridge
| thesis_title = History and Coinage in Southumbrian England, c. 750-865
| thesis_url = https://cambridge.academia.edu/RoryNaismith
| thesis_year = 2009
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| doctoral_advisor = Simon Keynes and Mark Blackburn
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| discipline = Medieval history
| sub_discipline = {{hlist|Numismatics|Anglo-Saxon England|Economic history}}
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- Clare College, Cambridge
- King's College London
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge }}
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| notable_works = Making Money in the Early Middle Ages
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}}Rory Naismith, FRHistS is a British academic, medieval numismatist and historian of Anglo-Saxon England, specialising in economic and monetary history. He is Professor of Early Medieval English History and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.{{Citation|url=https://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/people/Rory.Naismith/ |title= ASNAC Profile |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=2024-10-14|language=en-GB}}
As an undergraduate and postgraduate he studied in the department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at Trinity College, Cambridge between 2002 and 2009, and between 2009 and 2015 pursued postdoctoral research in with Fitzwilliam Museum and based at Clare College, Cambridge.{{Citation|url=https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-rory-naismith |title= Corpus Christi Profile |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=2024-10-14|language=en-GB}} He subsequently lectured for four years at King’s College London before returning to the University of Cambridge.
Selected publications
- The Coinage of Southern England 796–865, British Numismatic Society Special Publication 8, 2 vols. (London: Spink, 2011)
- Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: the Southern English Kingdoms 757–865, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 4th series, 80 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, vol. 67. British Museum: Anglo-Saxon Coins II: Southern English Coinage from Offa to Alfred, c. 760–c. 880 (London: British Museum Press, 2016)
- (with F. Tinti) The Forum Hoard of Anglo-Saxon Coins/Il ripostiglio dell’Atrium Vestae nel Foro Romano, Bollettino di numismatica 55–6 (Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2016)
- Citadel of the Saxons: the Rise of Early London (London: I.B. Tauris, 2018)
- Medieval European Coinage, with a Catalogue of the Coins in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 8: Britain and Ireland c. 400–1066 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
- Early Medieval Britain, c. 500-1000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- Making Money in the Early Middle Ages (Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023)
His book on Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: The Southern English Kingdoms 757–865 (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the 2013 International Society of Anglo-Saxonists First Book Prize. {{Citation|url=https://cambridgeblog.org/author-profile/rory-naismith/ |title= Cambridge Blog |publisher=University of Cambridge |access-date=2024-10-14|language=en-GB}} His book Making Money in the Early Middle Ages won the 2025 Otto Gründler Book Prize. {{Citation|url=https://wmich.edu/medieval/research/book-prize/ |title= Gründler Book Prize |publisher=Western Michigan University |access-date=2025-05-12|language=en-GB}}
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