Dr. Alice E. Blackwell
Alice Blackwell is Senior Curator of Medieval archaeology & history at National Museums Scotland and works on the material culture of the early, central and later middle ages. She has co-authored several books – Early Medieval Scotland: Individuals, Communities and Ideas (2012) and Scotland’s early silver (2017) which developed from a special exhibition she jointly curated in Edinburgh. She also edited Scotland in early Medieval Europe (2018).
Books by Alice E. Blackwell
Scotland in Early Medieval Europe
Edited by Alice E. Blackwell | 2019
This edited volume explores how (what is today) Scotland can be compared with, contrasted to, or was connected with other parts of Early Medieval Europe. Far from a ‘dark age’, Early Medieval Scotland (AD 300–900)…
Silver Beyond Empire
The transition between late Roman and early medieval Europe
Edited by Alice E. Blackwell, Fraser Hunter, Andreas Rau & Martin Goldberg | Forthcoming
Power and prestige in Europe during the first millennium AD were predominantly expressed in two portable materials: silver and gold. These precious metals underpinned the emergence of early Medieval kingdoms in Europe by providing the…
