Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Roman heritage -- Middle Saxon towns -- The development of burhs -- Viking towns -- The burhs of Wessex -- The burhs of Mercia -- The later tenth century -- Norman towns…”

“…The contents of the hoard include a highly significant collection of over 200 silver pennies, mostly of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex, and Ceolwulf II, king of Mercia, transforming our understanding of the coinage in this period, and 23 silver and gold pieces of contemporary metalwork much of which was derived from Scandinavia.0Presenting the complete publication of the objects and coins in the Watlington Hoard - including an important re-assessment of the coinage of the late 870s - the authors discuss its wider implications for our understanding of hoarding in late 9th-century southern Britain, interactions between the kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia, and the movements of the Viking Great Army after the Battle of Edington in 878. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Sanctity and the City: Sacred Space in Henry Bradshaw's Lifeof St WerburgePlotting Chester on the National Map: Richard Pynson's 1521printing of Henry Bradshaw's Life of St Werburge; The Outside Within: Medieval Chester and North Wales as aSocial Space; Mapping the Migrants: Welsh, Manx and Irish Settlers infifteenth-century Chester; Leeks for Livery: Consuming Welsh Difference in the ChesterShepherds' Play; Remembering Anglo-Saxon Mercia in late medieval andearly modern Chester; Bibliography; Index…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ 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? …”

“…Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to prominence, for instance in the middle Saxon period (viz. the kingdom of Mercia), or, much later, with rural south Shropshire being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Remembering the Lady of Mercia -- Scott Thompson Smith -- Affect Theory -- 4. …”