There are a lot of excellent papers within this book. This is the second book of papers on Mercia that I've read and it has the advantage of being 24 years younger than the previous book. Interestingly it references the book that I'd just finish Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe (Brown and Farr, Eds), 2001, 328 pages Papers presented include: Introduction: Mercia, a Culture in Context, M Brown and C Farr This introduces the forthcoming papers, giving each one a short paragraph of description. Mercia, an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe (Brown and Farr, Eds), 2001, 328 pages This is the second book of papers on Mercia that I've read and it has the advantage of being 24 years younger than the previous book.

Part III: The Material Culture of Mercia -ġ2 Mercians: The Dwellers on the Boundary -ġ3 The Growth of Market Centres and Towns in the Area of the Mercian Hegemony -ġ6 Constructing Iconographies: Questions of Identity in Mercian Sculpture -ġ9 Mercian Manuscripts? The Tiberius' Group and Its Historical Context -Ģ0 Military Institutions and Royal Power -Ģ1 Mercia and Wessex in the Ninth Century. Part I: The Mercian Polity: Church and State -Ģ The Tribal Hidage and the Ealdormen of Mercia -ģ Political Women in Mercia, Eighth to Early Tenth Centuries -Ĥ The Mercian Church: Archaeology and Topography -ĥ Hagiography and Literature: The Case of Guthlac of Crowland -ħ The Verturian Hegemony: A Mirror in the North.Ĩ Abbesses, Minor Dynasties and Kings in clericatu: Perspectives of Ireland, 700-850.

Introduction: Mercia, a Culture in Context. Contents: Introduction: Mercia, a Culture in Context - Part I: The Mercian Polity: Church and State - 1 The Origins of Mercia - 2 The Tribal Hidage and the Ealdormen of Merci Establishes a new baseline for Mercian scholarship, covering the rise and fall of the kingdom, its major institutions, relations with other political entities as well as its visual and material culture.

Establishes a new baseline for Mercian scholarship, covering the rise and fall of the kingdom, its major institutions, relations with other political entities as well as its visual and material culture.

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