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Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe (Continuum Collection)

by Michelle P. Brown

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The kingdom best remembered for Offa and his famous dyke was not only a dominant power on the island of Britain in the eighth century, but also a significant player in early medieval European politics and culture. Although the volume focuses on the eighth and ninth centuries when Mercian power was at its height, it also looks back to the origins of the kingdom and forward to the period of Viking settlement and West Saxon reconquest. With state-of-the-art contributions from experts in palaeography, art history, archaeology, numismatics and landscape - as well as from historians - this book esta… (more)
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The kingdom best remembered for Offa and his famous dyke was not only a dominant power on the island of Britain in the eighth century, but also a significant player in early medieval European politics and culture. Although the volume focuses on the eighth and ninth centuries when Mercian power was at its height, it also looks back to the origins of the kingdom and forward to the period of Viking settlement and West Saxon reconquest. With state-of-the-art contributions from experts in palaeography, art history, archaeology, numismatics and landscape - as well as from historians - this book esta

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Introduction: Mercia, a culture in context - Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr
Part I: The Mercian polity: church and state
1. The origins of Mercia - Barbara Yorke
2. The tribal hidage and the ealdormen of Mercia - Peter Featherstone
3. Political women in Mercia, eighth to early tenth centuries - Pauline Stafford
4. The Mercian church: archaeology and topography - David Parsons
5. Hagiography and literature: the case of Guthlac of Crowland
Part II: Parallel cultures
6. Wales and Mercia, 613-918 - T. M. Charles-Edwards
7. The Venturian hedgemony: a mirror in the North - Alex Woolf
8. Abbesses, minor dynasties and kings in clericatu: Perspectives of Ireland, 700-850 - Edel Bhreathnach
9. Carolinian contacts - Janet L. Nelson
Part III: The material culture of Mercia
10. The archaeology of Mercia - Martin Welch
11. Mercia: landscape and environment - Della Hooke
12. Mercians: the dwellers on the boundary - David Hill
13. The growth of market centres and towns in the area of the Mercian hegemony - Alan Vince
14. Mercian London - Robert Cowie
15. Mercian coinage and authority - Gareth Williams
Pert IV: The visual culture of Mercia
16. Constructing iconographies: questions of identity in Mercian sculpture - Jane Hawkes
17. Classicism of Southumbrian sculpture - Richard Jewell
18. Metalwork of the Mercian supremacy - Leslie Webster
19. Mercian manuscripts? The 'Tiberius' Group and its historical context - Michelle P. Brown
Part V: Mercia in retreat
20. Military institutions and royal power - Gareth Williams
21. Mercia and Wessex in the ninth century - Simon Keynes
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