The Land of the English Kin : : Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke / / Alexander James Langlands and Ryan Lavelle.

• Superior document: Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages Series ; Volume 26
• VerfasserIn: Langlands, Alex,; Lavelle, Ryan,
• TeilnehmendeR: Lavelle, Ryan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Southeast Asian library ; Volume 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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 contributions demonstrate the indelible impression Barbara Yorke’s work has made on her peers and a generation of new scholars, some of whom have benefitted directly from her tutorage. From the identities that emerged in the immediate post-Roman period, through to the development of kingdoms, the role of the church, and impacts felt beyond the eleventh century, the rich and diverse character of the studies presented here are testimony to the versatility and extensive range of the honorand’s contribution to the academic field.

Table of Contents

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.