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

Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction: Mercia, a Culture in Context......Page 16
Part I: The Mercian Polity: Church and State......Page 26
1 The Origins of Mercia......Page 28
2 The Tribal Hidage and the Ealdormen of Mercia......Page 38
3 Political Women in Mercia, Eighth to Early Tenth Centuries......Page 50
4 The Mercian Church: Archaeology and Topography......Page 66
5 Hagiography and Literature: The Case of Guthlac of Crowland......Page 84
Part II: Parallel Cultures......Page 102
6 Wales and Mercia, 613–918......Page 104
7 The Verturian Hegemony: A Mirror in the North......Page 121
8 Abbesses, Minor Dynasties and Kings in clericatu: Perspectives of Ireland, 700–850......Page 128
9 Carolingian Contacts......Page 141
Part III: The Material Culture of Mercia......Page 160
10 The Archaeology of Mercia......Page 162
11 Mercia: Landscape and Environment......Page 176
12 Mercians: The Dwellers on the Boundary......Page 188
13 The Growth of Market Centres and Towns in the Area of the Mercian Hegemony......Page 198
14 Mercian London......Page 209
15 Mercian Coinage and Authority......Page 226
Part IV: The Visual Culture of Mercia......Page 244
16 Constructing Iconographies: Questions of Identity in Mercian Sculpture......Page 246
17 Classicism of Southumbrian Sculpture......Page 262
18 Metalwork of the Mercian Supremacy......Page 278
19 Mercian Manuscripts? The Tiberius\' Group and Its Historical Context......Page 294
Part V: Mercia in Retreat......Page 308
20 Military Institutions and Royal Power......Page 310
21 Mercia and Wessex in the Ninth Century......Page 325
Bibliography......Page 344
B......Page 395
D......Page 396
K......Page 397
Q......Page 398
V......Page 399
L......Page 400
W......Page 401