The History of Roman Coins with Dr. Samuel Collins

Samuel Collins

Dr.

George Mason University

Sam Collins is an historian of early medieval western Europe. His first book, The Carolingian Debate Over Sacred Space (2014), examined opposed ninth-century assessments of claims for and against the status of ecclesiastical architecture as sacred. His current work looks at eighth and ninth-century monastic reform and its use and misuse of the ascetic language of late antiquity to justify and shape those key medieval changes to western monastic practice. Professor Collins teaches widely on medieval and late Roman topics in both the graduate and undergraduate program here at Mason.