Early Medieval Winchester -

Early Medieval Winchester

Communities, Authority and Power in an Urban Space, c.800-c.1200
Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2021
Oxbow Books (Verlag)
978-1-78925-623-9 (ISBN)
62,25 inkl. MwSt
An examination of the role of Winchester as the heart of royal power in early medieval England.
Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.

Ryan Lavelle is a senior lecturer in medieval history at the University of Winchester where he teaches on Anglo-Saxon England, the Normans and the Norman Conquest, and the Carolingian Renaissance. He specialises in late Anglo-Saxon political history, including royal landholding, especially in Wessex, and early medieval warfare. He is the co-editor of Danes in Wessex (Oxbow 2016). Simon Roffey is a reader in medieval archaeology at the University of Winchester with research interests in the archaeology of the medieval period, the archaeology of Winchester, church and building archaeology and the influence of the medieval period on creative writing and popular culture, including novels, films, games and art forms. KATHERINE WEIKERT is Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester.

Editors' Preface

List of Contributors

List of Illustrations

 

1. Communities, Authority and Power in Winchester, c. 800–c. 1200

Katherine Weikert, Ryan Lavelle, and Simon Roffey

2. Capital Considerations: Winchester and the Birth of Urban Archaeology

Martin Biddle

3. The King’s Stone: Peace, Power and the Highway in Early Medieval Winchester

Alexander James Langlands

4. Royal Burial in Winchester: Context and Significance

Barbara Yorke

5. Constructing Early Medieval Winchester: Historical Narratives and the Compilation of British Library Cotton Otho B.XI

Sharon M. Rowley

6. Winchester, Æthelings and Clitones: The Political Significance of the City for Anglo-Saxon Royalty and Norman Nobility

David McDermott

7. The Execution of Earl Waltheof: Public Space and Royal Authority at the Edge of Eleventh-Century Winchester

Ryan Lavelle

8. Queen, the Countess and the Conflict: Winchester 1141

Katherine Weikert

9. Lantfred and Local Life at Winchester in the 960s and 970s

Mark Atherton

10. Wælcyrian in the Water Meadows: Lantfred’s Furies

Eric Lacey

11. SK27, Or A Winchester Pilgrim’s Tale

Simon Roffey

12. The Early Jewish Community in Twelfth-Century Winchester: An Interdisciplinary View

Toni Griffiths

13. Henry of Blois and an Archbishopric of Winchester: Medieval Rationale and Anglo-Saxon Sources

Alexander R. Rumble

14. Swithun in the North: A Winchester Saint in Norway

Karl Christian Alvestad

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo B/w
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Archäologie
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-78925-623-2 / 1789256232
ISBN-13 978-1-78925-623-9 / 9781789256239
Zustand Neuware
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