The Land of the English Kin: Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke

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.

Front Matter --; Copyright Page /; Editors’ Preface /; Illustrations /; Abbreviations /; Contributors /; Introduction /; The Making of Post-Roman Identities /; Venta Belgarum: What Is in the Name for Roman Winchester? /; Winchester: A City of Two Planned Towns /; Words and Swords: People and Power along the Solent in the 5th Century /; Costume Groups in Hampshire and Their Bearing on the Question of Jutish Settlement in the Later 5th and 6th Centuries AD /; A Well-Married Landscape: Networks of Association and 6th-Century Communities on the Isle of Wight /; The Afterlives of Bede’s Tribal Names in English Place-Names /; Constructing Early Anglo-Saxon Identity in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles /; Rulers and Their Territories /; Oswald and the Strong Man Armed /; Theodore’s Peace /; The Northumbrian Attack on Brega in a.d. 684 /; A Conversion-Period Burial in an Ancient Landscape: A High-Status Female Grave near the Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire/Warwickshire /; A Possible Anglo-Saxon Execution Cemetery at Werg, Mildenhall (Cvnetio), Wiltshire and the Wessex-Mercia Frontier in the Age of King Cynewulf /; On the Territorial Organisation of Early Medieval Hampshire /; Ceapmenn and Portmenn: Trade, Exchange and the Landscape of Early Medieval Wessex /; Places I’ll Remember? Reflections on Alfred, Asser and the Power of Memory in the West Saxon Landscape /; Wessex and the Reign of Edmund ii Ironside /; Rulers and Religious Affiliations /; Alcuin’s Letters Sent from Francia to Anglo-Saxon and Frankish Women Religious /; The Role of Mercian Kings in the Founding of Minsters in the Kingdom of the Hwicce /; Beyond the Billingas: From Lay Wealth to Monastic Wealth on the Lincolnshire Fen-Edge /; Mynsters and Parishes: Some Evidence and Conclusions from Wiltshire /; The Anglo-Saxon Chapel of St Helen at Malmesbury /; St Wærburh: The Multiple Identities of a Regional Saint /; The Godwins, Towns and St Olaf Churches: Comital Investment in the Mid-11th Century /; Anglo-Saxon England Beyond 1066 /; William the Conqueror and Wessex /; Sanctity and Suffering: The Sacred World of the Medieval Leprosarium. A Perspective from St Mary Magdalen, Winchester /; Ely Cathedral and the Afterlife of Ealdorman Byrhtnoth /; Leavings or Legacies? The Role of Early Medieval Saints in English Church Dedications beyond the Conquest and the Reformation /; Olavian Traces in Post-Medieval England /; Pioneering Local History and Landscape History: Some Reflections on Anglo-Saxon England in the work of W.G. Hoskins /; Back Matter --; Select Bibliography /; Index / / Ryan Lavelle --; Ryan Lavelle --; Ryan Lavelle --; Ryan Lavelle --; Ryan Lavelle --; Ryan Lavelle and Alexander Langlands --; Ryan Lavelle --; Anthony C. King --; Martin Biddle --; Jillian Hawkins --; Nick Stoodley --; Sue Harrington --; John Baker and Jayne Carroll --; Courtnay Konshuh --; Ryan Lavelle --; Julia Barrow --; N.J. Higham --; David A.E. Pelteret --; Helena Hamerow --; Andrew Reynolds --; Stuart Brookes --; Alexander Langlands --; Ryan Lavelle --; David McDermott --; Ryan Lavelle --; Jinty Nelson --; Steven Bassett --; John Blair --; Jonathan Pitt --; Michael Hare --; Alan Thacker --; Robert Higham --; Ryan Lavelle --; David Bates --; Simon Roffey --; Katherine Weikert --; Michael Hicks --; Karl Christian Alvestad --; R.C. Richardson --; Ryan Lavelle --; Ryan Lavelle.