Mercia : an Anglo-Saxon kingdom in Europe / edited by Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-379) and indexes.

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.

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