| Description |
1 online resource (x, 386 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Studies in the early history of Europe |
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Continuum studies in medieval history |
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Studies in the early history of Europe.
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Continuum studies in medieval history.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Mercia, a culture in context / Michelle P. Brown, Carol A. Farr -- pt. I: The Mercian polity : church and state. The origins of Mercia / Barbara Yorke -- The tribal hidage and the ealdormen of Mercia / Peter Featherstone -- Political women in Mercia, eighth to early tenth centuries / Pauline Stafford -- The Mercian church : archaeology and topography / David Parsons -- Hagiography and literature : the case of Guthlac of Crowland / Jane Roberts -- pt. II: Parallel cultures. Wales and Mercia, 613-918 / T.M. Charles-Edwards -- The Verturian hegemony : a mirror in the north / Alex Woolf -- Abbesses, minor dynasties, and kings in cleriacatu : perspectives of Ireland, 700-850 / Edel Bhreathnach -- Carolingian contacts / Janet L. Nelson -- pt. III: The material culture of Mercia. The archaeology of Mercia / Martin Welch -- Mercia : landscape and environment / Della Hooke -- Mercians : the dwellers on the boundary / David Hill -- The growth of market centres and towns in the area of the Mercian hegemony / Alan Vince -- Mercian London / Robert Cowie -- Mercian coinage and authority / Gareth Williams -- pt. IV: The visual culture of Mercia. Constructing iconographies : questions of identity in Mercian sculpture / Jane Hawkes -- Classicism of Southumbrian sculpture / Richard Jewell -- Metalwork of the Mercian supremacy / Leslie Webster -- Mercian manuscripts? : the "Tiberius" group and its historical context / Michelle P. Brown -- pt. V: Mercia in retreat. Military institutions and royal power / Gareth Williams -- Mercia and Wessex in the ninth century / Simon Keynes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-379) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anglo-Saxons -- England -- Mercia (Kingdom)
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
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Anglo-Saxons
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Civilization
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Mercia (Kingdom) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85068448
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England -- Civilization -- To 1066.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043273
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730
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| Subject |
England
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Europe -- Mercia (Kingdom)
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Michelle (Michelle P.)
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Farr, Carol A., 1949-
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| ISBN |
0826477658 |
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9780826477651 |
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0718502310 |
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9780718502317 |
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9781441153531 |
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1441153535 |
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