Alan M. Stahl
(914)
amstahl@optonline.net
Princeton, NJ, 08544
(609) 258-3214
Professional Positions
The American Numismatic
Society, Curator of Medieval Coins and of Medals, 1980 -
2000
Università
di Venezia, Visiting Professor, 1987-88
University of Notre Dame,
Visiting Professor, summer 2002
Co-Director, Michael of
Rhodes Project, The Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology
at MIT, 2002 to present
Lecturer, Department of
Classics,
Curator of Numismatics,
Education
Ph.D. in History,
1977
Research Grants, Fellowships
and Awards
Centre
de Recherches Archéologiques Médiévales (Caen), 1974
American
Numismatic Society, Summer Seminar Fellowship, 1975
Gladys K. Delmas Foundation,
Grant for Research, 1981, 1983, 1985
Robinson-Kraay Fellow,
Dumbarton
Oaks Research Center and Istituto Ellenico di Venezia, Research
Grant,
1997
Association of American
Publishers' Professional/Scholarly Publishing
Award in Economics, 2001,
for Zecca
The
National Endowment for the Humanities, Principal Investigator, grant for the
publication of the Michael of Rhodes manuscript, 2003-2006
The
National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator, grant for the publication
of the Michael of Rhodes manuscript, 2003-2006
The
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Fellow, 2008
Publications
Books
The
Merovingian Coinage of the Region of Metz,
Publications d'histoire de l'art et d'archéologie de l'Université Catholique de
Louvain 30, Numismatica Lovaniensia 5 (Louvain-la-Neuve,
1982).
The Venetian Tornesello: A
Medieval Colonial Coinage, American Numismatic
Society, Numismatic Notes and Monographs 163 (New York,
1985).
The Medal in
America,
editor, Coinage of the Americas Conference, Proceedings 4 (New York,
1988).
Mérovingiens
et royaumes barbares,
Collections Numismatiques, Fonds Bourgey (Paris:Errance,
1994).
The Medal in
America,
Vol. 2, editor, Coinage of the Americas Conference, Proceedings 13 (New York.
1999).
The Documents of Angelo de
Cartura and Donato Fontanella; Venetian Notaries in Fourteenth-Century
Crete,
editor, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (
Zecca; The Mint of
Zecca, Italian
translation by Julianna Scudder (Rome: Il Veltro, forthcoming
2008).
The Book of Michael of
Rhodes,
ed. With Pamela O. Long and David McGee, 3 vols. (Cambridge MA: MIT Press,
forthcoming 2008)
The Nexus of Wealth and
Power in Medieval Venice (in
preparation)
Medieval European Coinage,
Vol.
13 Italy (II): Central Italy, with William R. Day, Jr. (in
preparation)
The Rebirth of
Antiquity: Numismatics, Archaeology, and Classical Studies in the Culture of the
Renaissance, editor, published as Princeton University Library Chronicle,
79, 2 (Winter, 2008) (in preparation).
Articles
“The Merovingian CA Coinage
of
“A Numerical Taxonomy of
Merovingian Coins,”Computers and the
Humanities, 12, 1-2 (1978), 201-14.
“The Melgorian Penny,” Medieval Coins, 16 (1978),
3-4.
“La
médaille de l'industrie américaine,” in Médailles: XIX Congrès de la Fédération
Internationale de la Médaille (Florence, 1983), pp.
121-24.
“The Grasis Coinage of the
Grand Duchy of
“Numerical Taxonomy and
Medieval Coinage,” in Problems of
Medieval Coinage in the Iberian Area, ed. M. G.
Marques (
“The American Industrial
Medal,” The Numismatist, 97, 10 (Oct.
1984), 2066-73. Recipient of special Heath Literary Award of the
ANA.
“Three Parcels of Venetian
Grossi in the ANS Collection,” Rivista
Italiana di Numismatica, 86 (1984), 181-96.
“Lauffer's Medal Cabinet,”
Medallic Sculpture, 1 (1985),
9-13.
“The Circulation of European
Coinage in the Crusader States,” in The
Meeting of Two Worlds, ed. V. Goss, Medieval Institute, Studies in Medieval
Culture 21 (Kalamazoo, 1986), pp. 85-102.
“Groat,” Dictionary of the Middle Ages, 5:679-80
(New York, 1985).
“Venetian
Coinage in Medieval Greece,” in Économies
méditerranéenes, équilibres et intercommunications, Actes du IIe Colloque
International d'Histoire, ed. L. Droulia (
“A Fourteenth-Century
Venetian Coin Portrait,” American
Numismatic
“Coins/Monnaies”, in
“Mints and Money,
“The American Numismatic
Society and the Beaux-Arts Medal,” in The
Beaux-Arts Medal in
“Venetian
Coinage: Variations in Production,” in Rythmes de la production monétaire de
l'antiquité à nos jours, ed G. Depeyrot, T. Hackens, and G. Moucharte,
Numisatica Lovaniensia 7 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1987), pp.
467-81.
“The Mint of
“The Analysis of a Hoard of
Venetian Torneselli,” with Peter P. Gaspar and Mary F. Striegel, in Metallurgy in Numismatics, Vol. 2, ed.
W. A. Oddy (
“Monastic Minting in the
Middle Ages,” in Medieval
Monasticism, ed. A. MacLeish (
“A Hoard of Medieval Pennies
from
“Numismatics and Medieval
Archaeology,” in Medieval
Archaeology, ed. C. Redman (
“Italian Sources for the
Coinage of Cilician Armenia,” in Essays Dedicated in Honor of Paul Z. Bedoukian,
ed. Y. T. Nercessian, Armenian Numismatic
Journal, 15 (1989), 59-66.
“The Black Death and the
Mint of
“European Coinage in
“Coinage in the Name of
Medieval Women,” in Medieval Women and
the Sources of Medieval History, ed. J. Rosenthal (Athens, GA,1990), pp.
321-41.
“FIDEM '90 .... Biennial of
the Medal,” Sculpture Review, 39, 3
(1990), 16-17.
“Indian
Peace Medals, Official and Unofficial,” Médailles: XXIIème Congrès de la Fédération
Internationale de la Médaille (Helsinki, 1990), pp.
38-48.
“Marcel Jovine,” in Sculpture Review, 41,1 (1992),
16-18.
“American Indian Peace
Medals of the Colonial Period,” in Money
of Pre-Federal
“American Indian Peace
Medals of the Colonial Period in the Collection of the American Numismatic
Society,” with William Scully, in Money
of Pre-Federal
“History of the New York
Numismatic Club, 1908-1991” (New York, 1992), editor of revised
edition.
“The Nature of the Sutton
Hoo Coin Parcel,” in Voyage to the Other
World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo, ed. C. Kendall and P. Wells, Medieval
Studies at Minnesota 5, (Minneapolis, 1992), pp. 3-14.
“The Date of the Sutton Hoo
Coins,” with W. A. Oddy, in Sutton Hoo:
Fifty Years After, ed. R. Farrell and C. N. de Vegvar, American Early
Medieval Studies 2 (Oxford, OH, 1992), 129-47.
“The First Coins in the
“The First Coins in the
“White-Faced Greenbacks,” The New York Times, 11 December 1992, p.
A-39.
“Addendum” to Medieval Coins in the Christian J. Thomsen
Collection, with Allen G. Berman, rev. and trans. ed., South Salem, NY:Attic
Books, 1992, pp. 324-341.
“Mint Masters and Mint Marks in the
Middle Ages,” Revue Belge de
Numismatique, 138 (1992), xcvii-cii.
“A Fourteenth-Century
Venetian Coin Pattern,” in Moneta e Non
Moneta, Rivista Italiana di
Numismatica, 95 (1993), 587-604.
“Unknown Artist with the
Initials HG (?), Martin Luther,” in The
Currency of Fame; Portrait Medals of the Renaissance, ed Stephen K. Scher
(New York: Abrams, 1994), pp.240-41, #101a; “Hans Kels (?), Barbara Reihing,” ibid, p.244, #102; “
“The
“Office Holding and the Mint
in Early Renaissance
“The Earliest Known
Medalists: The Sesto Brothers of
“Coins from the Excavations
at La Isabela, D.R., the First European Colony in the
“Cast or Struck: A Medallic
Option,” Proceedings of the XXIV Congress of the Fédération Internationale de la
Médaille,
“Monete
dei Gonzaga nella Collezione della American Numismatic Society,” in
I Gonzaga; Monete Arte Storia , ed. S. Balbi de Caro (
“The Deathbed Oration of
Doge Mocenigo and the Mint of
“Medals of the Comitia Americana Series in the Collections of the
American Numismatic Society and other Public Institutions,” in Coinage of America in the Period
of Confederation, ed. Philip L. Mossman, Coinage of the Americas Conference
Proceedings 9 (New York, 1996), pp. 261-346.
“Victor D. Brenner and the
American Numismatic Society,” in Italiam
Fato Profugi; Numismatic Studies Dedicated to Vladimir and Elvira Eliza
Clain-Stefanelli , Numismatics Lovaniensia 12 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996), pp.
317-26.
“Minting and Money,” in Medieval Latin Studies: An Introduction and
Bibliographical Guide , ed. F. A. C. Mantello and A. G. Rigg (
“
“Coins and Coinage” and “Mints and
Minting” in Medieval
“The Coinage of
“The
Circulation of Medieval Venetian Coinages,” in Lucia Travaini, ed., Moneta locale, moneta straniera: Italia ed
Europa XI-XV secolo, Società Numismatica Italiana, Collana di Numismatica e
Scienze Affini 2 (Milan, 1999), pp. 87-111.
“The Grosso of Enrico
Dandolo,” in Mélanges Tony Hackens, Revue
Belge de Numismatique, 145, (1999), 261-68.
“Mint and Medal in the
Renaissance,” in Perspectives on the
Renaissance Medal, Stephen K. Scher, ed.,
“Coinage” in Medieval Archaeology, An Encyclopedia, ed. Pam J. Crabtree
(
“The Orte Hoard of Tuscan
Grossi,” in Proceedings of the XIIth
International Numismatic Congress (
“A Prosopography of Venetian Mint
Officials,” Medieval Prosopography,
21 (2000), 41-131.
“The Venetian Mint in the Age of the
Black Death,” in Material Culture and
Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ed. Curtis
Perry, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance 5 (Turnhout
(Belgium), 2001), pp. 41-57.
“Numismatic
Portraiture in Renaissance Venice,” Quaderni Ticinesi di Numismatica e Antichità
Classiche, 30 (2001), 305-12.
“Genova
e Venezia, La moneta dal XII al XIV secolo,” in Genova, Venezia, il levante nei secoli
XII-XIV, ed. G. Ortalli and D. Puncuh
(
“Coinage and Money in the Latin Empire of
“Venetian Commerce in the
Later Middle Ages: Feast or Famine?,” in Medieval Cultures in Contact, ed.
Richard F. Gyug (
“Ducat,” and “Money Changing,” in The
“Coinage,” in “Origins of the European Economy: a
Debate with Michael McCormick,” ed. E. James, Early Medieval
“Coins and Mints” in Medieval
“Technological Innovation
and Control at the Medieval Venetian Mint,” in Villard’s Legacy: Studies in medieval
technology, science and art in memory of Jean Gimpel, ed. M.-T. Zenner
(Aldershot
“The Princeton University
Library Numismatic Collection,” with Brooks E. Levy, Comte rendu de la
Commission Internationale de Numismatique, 51 (2004),
20-24.
“The Diplomatic Medal,”
“Devoted to Dogs,” The
Numismatist, 118, 8 (August 2005), 34-37.
“Revolutionary War Medal
Discovered at
“Introduction,” Corpus
Numismatum Omnium Romanorum Pontificum, ed. Adolfo Modesti, 4 (
“Coinage,” Women and Gender in
Medieval Europe, ed. Susan Stuard,
Margaret Schaus and Thomas Izbicki (
“The Sterling Abroad,” in
The Haskins Society Journal 18 (2006), 132-39.
“Vattemare and Numismatics” in The Extravagant Ambassador: The True Story
of Alexandre Vattemare, the French
Ventriloquist Who Changed the World, ed. Earle Havens and
Pierre-Alain Tilliette (Boston: Boston Public Library, 2007), pp.
200-05.
"Mashiko: The Medallist as
Sculptor, Teacher and Marketer," The
Medal, 51 (Autumn, 2007), 33-37.
“European Minting and the Balance of Payments with the
Islamic World
in the Later Middle Ages,” in Relazione economiche tra
Europa e mondo islamico, secc. XIII-XVIII, ed. Simonetta
Cavaciocchi, Istituto Francesco Datini,
Settimane di Studi 37 (Prato, 2007).
“Coins for Trade and for
Wages; The Development of Coinage Systems in Medieval Venice,” in Wages and
Currency: Global and Historical Comparisons from Antiquity to the Twentieth
Century, ed. J. Lucassen and A. Pol (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), pp.
193-209.
In Press
“Zecca
di Venezia,” in Guida per lo studio delle
zecche italiane medievali e moderni, ed. L. Travaini (forthcoming,
2008).
“The Venetian Mint after the
Black Death,” in Medieval
“Money and Coinage,” in The
“Michael of Rhodes, Mariner
in Service to Medieval
Michael of
Rhodes, ed.
Pamela O. Long, David McGee and Alan M. Stahl,
3 vols. (Cambridge MA, MIT
Press, (forthcoming 2008).
“Coin and Punishment in Medieval Venice,”
in Law and the Illicit in Medieval Society, ed. Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel
Kaye, Ann Matter (forthcoming, 2008)
“The circulation of medieval
Venetian coinage in the Balkans,” in Coinage in the Balkans, 9th
to 14th Centuries, ed. Julian Baker and Ernest Oberländer
Târnoveanu (forthcoming, 2008).
“The Origins of the Struck
Medal,” in Médailles, Proceedings of
the XXX FIDEM Congress (forthcoming, 2008).
“Rome during Avignon, The Silver Coinage of Rome in the
Fourteenth Century” in M. Asolati, ed., I
ritrovamenti monetali e i processi inflativi nel mondo antico e medievale
(forthcoming, 2008).
Reviews
Bisson, Thomas N., Conservation of Coinage , in Speculum, 57 (1982),
121-23.
Tzamalis, Anastasios, Ta Nomismata tes Phragkokratias,
1184-1566, in Numismatics International, 16 (1982),
126-27.
Spaulding, James E., Coins of the Realm, in Speculum, 60 (1985),
1065-66.
Pastoureau,
Michel, Jetons, méreaux, médailles, in M Speculum, 62 (1987),
514.
Witthöft,
Harald, Münzfuss, Kleingewichte, pondus
Karoli und die Grundlegung des nordeuropäischen Mass- und Gewichtswesens in
fränkischer Zeit, in Speculum, 62 (1987),
754-56.
Il
“Capitolar dalle Broche” della Zecca di Venezia, ed.
G. Bonfiglio
Dosio, and Frederic C. Lane and Reinhold C. Mueller, Money and Banking in Medieval and
Renaissance Venice, in Numismatic
Chronicle, 147 (1987), 194-96.
Balard, Michel, et al., Les Italiens à Byzance, in American Historical Review, 93 (1988),
1313-14.
Grierson, Philip and Mark
Blackburn, Medieval European Coinage,
1 The Early Middle Ages, in Speculum, 63 (1988),
933-35.
Spufford, Peter, Money and its Use in Medieval
Kovács, Laszló, Münzen aus der Ungarischen
Landnahmezeit, in American Journal of
Numismatics, Ser. 2, 2 (1990), 186-89.
Cipolla,
Carlo, Il fiorino e il quattrino, La moneta a
Milano nel Quattrocento, and La moneta a Firenze nel Cinquecento, in
American Journal of Numismatics, Ser.
2, 3-4 (1992), 252-55.
Gemmill, Elizabeth and
Mayhew, Nicholas, Changing Values in
Medieval
Harl, Kenneth W., Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to
A.D. 700 in Speculum, 74, 2
(1999), 423-4.
Grierson, Philip and Lucia
Travaini, Medieval European Coinage,
Vol 14,
Cunnally, John. Images of the Illustrious; The Numismatic
Presence in the Renaissance in Renaissance Quarterly, 53, 3 (2000),
893-4.
Potin, V.M., Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles,
50, Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg, in The Medieval Review [online]. http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
01.02.03.
Kohl, Benjamin G., ed. The Records of the Venetian Senate on Disk,
1335-1400, in The Medieval Review [online].http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
02.11.06.
Gannon, Anna, The Iconography of Early Anglo-Saxon
Coinage, in The Medieval Review [online], http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
04.02.21.
Gillett, Andrew, ed., On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches
to Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages in Speculum, 79, 4 (2004),
1075-78.
Wood,
Diana, ed., Medieval Money Matters, in The Medieval Review [online],
http://www.hti.umich.edu/t/tmr/
05.08.15.
Metlich, Michael Andreas,
The Coinage of Ostrogothic
Falchetta, Piero, ed., Fra Mauro’s World Map in Speculum, forthcoming,
2008.
Kamp, Norbert,
Moneta Regis: Königliche
Münzstätten und königliche Münzpolitik in der Stauferzeit, in Speculum, forthcoming,
2008.
Papers and
Lectures
American Medallic Sculpture
Association (1988), (1989), (1992), (1997), (1998), (1999)
American Numismatic
Association, Numismatic Theatre (1991), (1997)
American Numismatic Society,
Stack Memorial Lecture (1983)
Archaeological
Archivio
di Stato Venezia, Scuola Archivistica (1988)
Cambridge University
Symposium on Medieval Coinage (1997), (2005), (2007)
Center for Medieval and
Early Renaissance Studies, SUNY (1980), (1983)
Center for Medieval Studies,
Center for Neo-Hellenic
Research,
Centre
National de Recherches Scientifiques, Orléans (2004)
Centre
National de Recherches Scientifiques, Paris (1986)
Centro
Internazionale d'Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantua
(1995)
Charles
Homer Haskins Society (2005)
Circolo
Italo-Britannico di Venezia (1981), (1984), (1986), (1988),
(1992)
Circolo
Numismatico di Padova (1986)
Classical Numismatic Society
of the
Department of History,
Princeton University (2007)
Department of History,
Dibner Institute for the
History of Science and Technology at M.I.T. (2005)
Economic History Association
(1982), (1984)
Economic
History Seminar, Columbia University (1996)
Fédération
Internationale de la Médaille (1983), (1990), (1994),
(2007)
Great Eastern Numismatic
Association (1981)
Greek, Roman and Byzantine
Studies Conference,
Institut
Supérieur d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art, Université Catholique de Louvain
(1981)
Institute on Anglo-Saxon
Instituto
Politécnico de Santarém (1984)
International
Congress on Byzantine Studies (2006)
International Institute for
Social History,
International Numismatic
Congress (1986), (1991), (1997)
Istituto
di Archeologia, Università di Padova (1981), (1994)
Istituto
Francesco Datini, Prato (2006)
Italian
Embassy Symposium on Renaissance Venice, Washington DC
(2006)
Lithuanian Numismatic
Association (1983)
Medieval
Medieval Club of
Medieval Institute,
Medieval Institute, Western
Michigan University (1977), (1978), (1981), (1982), (1985), (1987), (1988),
(1989), (1991), (1995), (1997), (Loew Lecturer, 1999), (2000), (2002), (2003),
(2004), (2005), (2007)
Medieval Studies Colloquium,
Medieval Studies Group,
Medieval Studies Conference,
Medieval Studies Seminar,
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Token and Medal
Society (1983)
National Sculpture Society
(1989)
Pen and Brush Club
(1991)
Program in Hellenic Studies,
Princeton University (2005), (2007)
Renaissance Society of
Società
Italiana di Numismatica (1988)
Società
Ligure di Storia Patria – Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti
(2000)
Society for Medieval
Numismatics (1980), (1988), (1992)
Society for the Study of the
Crusades (1988)
Trout Run Medals Camp
(1997), (1999)
Università di Padova,
Economic History Conference (2007)
Professional
Organizations
American Historical
Association
American Medallic Sculpture
Association (President 1984-88; Board of Directors,
1988-present)
American Numismatic
Association
American Numismatic Society
(Fellow)
Ateneo
AVISTA (Association Villard
de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Medieval Technology, Science
and Art) (Board of Directors 1995-present)
Fédération Internationale de
la Médaille (U.S.A. Delegate, 1987-2000, member of Comité Exécutif,
1989-2000)
Italian Art
Society
Jug Tavern of Sparta, Inc.
(President, 1999-present)
Medieval
National Sculpture Society
(Councillor 1991-96; 1998-2001)
New York Numismatic Club
(President 1986-87; Historian 1990-present)
Renaissance Society of
Society for the Study of the
Crusades and the Latin East
Exhibitions organized and
curated
“American Numismatic Design,
1892-1922,” permanent exhibit, American Numismatic Society
(1990)
“The Beaux-Arts Medal in
Saltus Award winners for lifetime
achievement in the art of the medal, one-artist shows, ANS (1983), (1984),
(1986), (1987), (1988), (1990), (1991), (1992), (1993), (1994), (1995), (1996),
(1997), (1998), (1999)
“Biennial
of the Medal,” Fédération Internationale de la Médaille (1985), (1987), (1990),
(1992), (1994), (1996), (1998)
“First AMSA Exhibition,”
American Medallic Sculpture Association (1984)
“The Medals of the American
Revolution,” ANS (1991)
“Coinage of the Crusades,”
“The Medals of the Columbian
Exposition,” ANS (1992)
“The Medals of
“Medieval Coinage, Literary
and Literal,” Medieval
“The Medals of the
“The Medals of Victor D.
Brenner,” ANS (1995)
“The English Medal,” ANS
(1996)
“American Women Medallists,”
ANS (1996)
“The American Medal, 1793 to
1848,” ANS (1996)
“Medieval Trade Coinages,”
Medieval
“Coinage in the Age of
Innocent III,”
“Recent Acquisitions,”
“The Henry Lee Medal,” The
Lure of the Library, Firestone Library (2005-6)
“The mint of Antioch from Seleucid to Roman rule,” Association of Ancient
Historians (2007)”
“Numismatics in the Rensaissance,” Firestone Library, Princeton
University (2007)