num_pages: 386
description: 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.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 Mercia --3 Political Women in Mercia, Eighth to Early Tenth Centuries --4 The Mercian Church: Archaeology and Topography --5 Hagiography and Literature: The Case of Guthlac of Crowland --Part II: Parallel Cultures --6 Wales and Mercia, 613-918 --7 The Verturian Hegemony: A Mirror in the North. 8 Abbesses, Minor Dynasties and Kings in clericatu: Perspectives of Ireland, 700-850 --9 Carolingian Contacts --Part III: The Material Culture of Mercia --10 The Archaeology of Mercia --11 Mercia: Landscape and Environment --12 Mercians: The Dwellers on the Boundary --13 The Growth of Market Centres and Towns in the Area of the Mercian Hegemony --14 Mercian London --15 Mercian Coinage and Authority --Part IV: The Visual Culture of Mercia --16 Constructing Iconographies: Questions of Identity in Mercian Sculpture --17 Classicism of Southumbrian Sculpture.18 Metalwork of the Mercian Supremacy --19 Mercian Manuscripts? The Tiberius' Group and Its Historical Context --Part V: Mercia in Retreat --20 Military Institutions and Royal Power --21 Mercia and Wessex in the Ninth Century
language: English
title: Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe
titlecomplete: Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe
genres: History, British Literature, Anglo Saxon
ratings_count: 10
places: Mercia, Britain
publisher: Continuum International Pub.