Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England

Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction. Britton Elliott Brooks is assistant professor of English at Kyushu University. His research centres on the environmental humanities, focusing most recently on non-human soundscapes in early medieval literature and the role of the ocean in literature more broadly. Britton Elliott Brooks is assistant professor of English at Kyushu University. His research centres on the environmental humanities, focusing most recently on non-human soundscapes in early medieval literature and the role of the ocean in literature more broadly. JANE HAWKES is Professor of Art History at the University of York. JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction. Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Rikkyo University, Tokyo.

Introduction: Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England -- Karen Louise Jolly and Britton Elliott Brooks
Part I Material Culture
1 The Global Triumph of Bread Wheat: The Role of Early Medieval England -- Debby Banham

2 Globalizing Anglo-Saxon Art -- Jane Hawkes

3 Minding the Gaps: Early Medieval Elite Sites in England and the Perimeters of Current Knowledge -- Carol Neuman de Vegvar

Part II Crossing Borders
4 Imagination at the Edge of the World: Luxuriating Women in Vercelli Homily VII and a Resistant Audience -- Jonathan Wilcox

5 Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'Heptarchy': Harun ibn Yahya's Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain -- Caitlin R. Green

6 Wulfstan in Truso: Old English Text, Baltic Archaeology, and World History -- John Hines

Part III Origins and Comparisons
7 Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Origins from a Eurasian Perspective -- John D. Niles

8 Historical Origins of a Mythical History: The Formation of the Myth Supporting Anglo-Saxonism Reconsidered -- Kazutomo Karasawa

9 Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: Exploring Anamorphic Comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon Missions and the Anglican Melanesian Mission -- Michael W. Scott

10 Anglo-Saxons on Exhibit: Displaying the Sacred -- Karen Louise Jolly