The Land of the English Kin Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke

This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship's most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine...

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Otros Autores: Langlands, Alexander James, editor (editor), Lavelle, Ryan, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden; Boston : BRILL 2020.
Colección:Brill open access.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page / Ryan Lavelle
  • Editors' Preface / Ryan Lavelle
  • Illustrations / Ryan Lavelle
  • Abbreviations / Ryan Lavelle
  • Contributors / Ryan Lavelle
  • Introduction / Ryan Lavelle and Alexander Langlands
  • The Making of Post-Roman Identities / Ryan Lavelle
  • Venta Belgarum: What Is in the Name for Roman Winchester? / Anthony C. King
  • Winchester: A City of Two Planned Towns / Martin Biddle
  • Words and Swords: People and Power along the Solent in the 5th Century / Jillian Hawkins
  • Costume Groups in Hampshire and Their Bearing on the Question of Jutish Settlement in the Later 5th and 6th Centuries AD / Nick Stoodley
  • A Well-Married Landscape: Networks of Association and 6th-Century Communities on the Isle of Wight / Sue Harrington
  • The Afterlives of Bede's Tribal Names in English Place-Names / John Baker and Jayne Carroll
  • Constructing Early Anglo-Saxon Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles / Courtnay Konshuh
  • Rulers and Their Territories / Ryan Lavelle
  • Oswald and the Strong Man Armed / Julia Barrow
  • Theodore's Peace / N.J. Higham
  • The Northumbrian Attack on Brega in a.d. 684 / David A.E. Pelteret
  • A Conversion-Period Burial in an Ancient Landscape: A High-Status Female Grave near the Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire/Warwickshire / Helena Hamerow
  • A Possible Anglo-Saxon Execution Cemetery at Werg, Mildenhall (Cvnetio), Wiltshire and the Wessex-Mercia Frontier in the Age of King Cynewulf / Andrew Reynolds
  • On the Territorial Organisation of Early Medieval Hampshire / Stuart Brookes
  • Ceapmenn and Portmenn: Trade, Exchange and the Landscape of Early Medieval Wessex / Alexander Langlands
  • Places I'll Remember? Reflections on Alfred, Asser and the Power of Memory in the West Saxon Landscape / Ryan Lavelle
  • Wessex and the Reign of Edmund ii Ironside / David McDermott
  • Rulers and Religious Affiliations / Ryan Lavelle
  • Alcuin's Letters Sent from Francia to Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Women Religious / Jinty Nelson
  • The Role of Mercian Kings in the Founding of Minsters in the Kingdom of the Hwicce / Steven Bassett
  • Beyond the Billingas: From Lay Wealth to Monastic Wealth on the Lincolnshire Fen-Edge / John Blair
  • Mynsters and Parishes: Some Evidence and Conclusions from Wiltshire / Jonathan Pitt
  • The Anglo-Saxon Chapel of St Helen at Malmesbury / Michael Hare
  • St Wærburh: The Multiple Identities of a Regional Saint / Alan Thacker
  • The Godwins, Towns and St Olaf Churches: Comital Investment in the Mid-11th Century / Robert Higham
  • Anglo-Saxon England Beyond 1066 / Ryan Lavelle
  • William the Conqueror and Wessex / David Bates
  • Sanctity and Suffering: The Sacred World of the Medieval Leprosarium. A Perspective from St Mary Magdalen, Winchester / Simon Roffey
  • Ely Cathedral and the Afterlife of Ealdorman Byrhtnoth / Katherine Weikert
  • Leavings or Legacies? The Role of Early Medieval Saints in English Church Dedications beyond the Conquest and the Reformation / Michael Hicks
  • Olavian Traces in Post-Medieval England / Karl Christian Alvestad
  • Pioneering Local History and Landscape History: Some Reflections on Anglo-Saxon England in the work of W.G. Hoskins / R.C. Richardson
  • Back Matter
  • Select Bibliography / Ryan Lavelle
  • Index / Ryan Lavelle.