Christoph Kilger
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Archaeology, Ancient History and Conservation; Archaeology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 83 12, +46 498 10 83 12
- E-mail:
- christoph.kilger@arkeologi.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Campus Gotland, Cramérgatan 3
621 57 Visby - Postal address:
- Uppsala universitet, Campus Gotland
621 67 Visby
Short presentation
Senior lecturer and associate professor in archaeology at department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Campus Gotland. Teaching and supervision of undergraduate-, graduate- and phd students. Research on money and means of payment in early historic contexts in Scandinavia and beyond. Great interest in research and dialogues over disciplinary boundaries
Keywords
- numismatik
- vikingatiden
- historisk arkeologi
- medeltiden
- betalningsmedel
- gotland
- urbanism
Research
I study the economies of the Viking Age and the Middle Ages in both material and textual sources. My particular research interest concerns Viking Age trade contacts with the Islamic world and the importance of silver in Viking Age society. Other areas of interest are the medieval urbanization on Gotland and studies of practice and liturgy in medieval church space

Publications
Recent publications
2024
Kan samhällets rätt till ett kulturarv upphöra på grund av stöld?
Part of Fornvännen, p. 68-70, 2024
2023
Medeltida syllstensgrund, stolpbyggnad och brya: Arkeologisk undersökning 2021
2022
Part of Medeltida syllstensgrund, stolpbyggnad och brya, p. 93-99, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Campus Gotland, Uppsala universitet, 2022
All publications
Articles in journal
Kan samhällets rätt till ett kulturarv upphöra på grund av stöld?
Part of Fornvännen, p. 68-70, 2024
Det medeltida Västergarn: Staden man sökte men aldrig fann
Part of Gotländskt arkiv, p. 28-41, 2018
Staden man sökte, men aldrig fann: det medeltida Västergarn
Part of Gotländskt arkiv, p. 26-41, 2018
Part of Nordisk Numismatisk Unions medlemsblad, p. 73-82, 2014
Sachsenpfennig i Grisebjerggårdfyndet (tpq 942/3): en ny pusselbit i den tyska mynthistorien
Part of Nordisk Numismatisk Unions medlemsblad, p. 15-20, 2008
Coin finds and the idea of monetary space
Part of Nordisk Numismatisk Årsskrift - Scandinavian Numismatic Journal, p. 208-227, 2006
Part of Meta, p. 37-52, 2005
Part of Nordisk Numismatisk Unions Medlemsblad, p. 3-12, 2003
The Slavs Yesterday and Today: Different Perspectives on Slavic Ethnicity in German Archaeology
Part of Current Swedish Archaeology, p. 99-114, 1998
Chapters in book
Part of Medeltida syllstensgrund, stolpbyggnad och brya, p. 93-99, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Campus Gotland, Uppsala universitet, 2022
Money and religious devotion in medieval Northern Europe
Part of Coins in Churches, p. 3-28, Routledge, 2021
Moving money, ritual money: Studying monetary and ritual space in Bunge church on medieval Gotland
Part of Coins in Churches, p. 76-142, Routledge, 2021
Part of Merchants, Measures and Money, p. 245-260, Wachholtz Verlag, 2021
Part of Viking-Age Trade, Routledge, 2020
Long distance trade, runes and silver: a Gotlandic perspective
Part of Relations and Runes, p. 49-63, Riksantikvarieämbetet, 2020
Silver, Land, Towns, and the Elites: Social and Legal Aspects of Silver in Scandinavia c. 850-1150
Part of Nordic Elites in Transforamtion, c. 1050-1250, Volume I, p. 130-160, Routledge, 2019
Ein dichtes Netz.: Händler und Fernhandelsnetzwerke
Part of Die Wikinger, p. 197-207, Ullstein Verlag, 2019
Part of Small things - wide horizons, p. 35-42, Archaeopress, 2015
Part of Fernhändler, Dynasten, Kleriker, p. 17-40, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015
Mynt och bebyggelse: Bebyggelseutvecklingen inom Västergarnsvallen ur ett numismatiskt perspektiv
Part of Myntstudier, p. 74-89, Svenska numismatiska föreningen, 2015
Part of Silver Economies, Monetisation and Society in Scandinavia, Ad 800-1100, p. 259-280, Aarhus University Press, 2011
Wholeness and Holiness: Counting, Weighing and Valuing Silver in the Early Viking Period
Part of Means of Exchange, p. 253-325, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2008
Part of Means of Exchange, p. 199-252, Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 2008
Kombinationer av föremål - de vikingatida mittspännedepåerna
Part of Facets of archeology, p. 323-338, Unipub forlag, 2008
Part of Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500-1250, p. 448-465, Brill Academic Publishers, 2006
Vikingatida mynt- och silverfynd ur arkeologiskt-numismatiskt tolkningsperspektiv
Part of Aktuell arkeologi V, p. 63-76, Arkeologiska institutionen, 1996
Myntfynd och den vikingatida silverhandeln
Part of Myntningen i Sverige 995-1995, p. 27-42, Svenska numismatiska föreningen, 1995
Collections (editor)
Conference papers
General comment on S. Brather: Silver, weights and scales around the Baltic, 8th to 11th centuries
Part of Trade and communication networks of the first millennium AD in the northern part of Central Europe, p. 165-169, 2010
Part of Stein som handelsvare, p. 50-62, 2005
Part of The European Frontier, p. 221-232, 2004
Reports
2024
2023
Medeltida syllstensgrund, stolpbyggnad och brya: Arkeologisk undersökning 2021
2022
2017
2014
Other
Part of Primitive tider, p. 97-99, 2006