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Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe
- Title
- Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe / edited by Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr.
- Publication
- New York : Leicester University Press, 2001.
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- Additional Authors
- Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
- Description
- x, 386 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studies in the early history of Europe
- Uniform Title
- Studies in the early history of Europe.
- Alternative Title
- Mercia
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Mercia, a Culture in Context / Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr -- Pt. 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 / Jane Roberts -- Pt. II. Parallel Cultures. 6. Wales and Mercia, 613-918 / T. M. Charles-Edwards. 7. The Verturian Hegemony: A Mirror in the North / Alex Woolf. 8. Abbesses, Minor Dynasties and Kings in clericatu: Perspectives of Ireland, 700-850 / Edel Bhreathnach. 9. Carolingian Contacts / Janet L. Nelson -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. V. Mercia in Retreat. 20. Military Institutions and Royal Power / Gareth Williams. 21. Mercia and Wessex in the Ninth Century / Simon Keynes.
- ISBN
- 0718502310
- LCCN
- 00069642
- OCLC
- ocm45707703
- SCSB-14071496
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries