Table of Contents
List of Maps viii
Notes on Contributors ix
List of Abbreviations xiii
Maps xv
Part I Introductory Matter 1 1 Introduction 3
Pauline Stafford 2 Historiography 9
Pauline Stafford 3 Sources 23
Pauline Stafford Part II Britain and Ireland, c.500-c.750 39 4
Britain and Ireland, c.500 41
Barbara Yorke 5 Economy 57
Howard B. Clarke 6 Kings and Kingship 76
Barbara Yorke 7 Communities and Kinship 91
David E. Thornton 8 Social Structure 107
Thomas M. Charles-Edwards 9 Britain, Ireland, and Europe,
c.500-c.750 126
Paul Fouracre 10 Conversions to Christianity 143
Huw Pryce 11 Church Organization and Pastoral Care 160
Thomas Pickles 12 Latin Learning and Christian Art 177
Martin J. Ryan Part III Britain and Ireland in the Long Ninth
Century, c.750-c.900 193 13 Viking Raids and Conquest 195
Dawn Hadley 14 Scandinavian Settlement 212
Dawn Hadley 15 Britain, Ireland, and Europe, c.750-c.900 231
Janet L. Nelson Part IV Britain and Ireland, C.900-c.1100 249 16
Scotland 251
Alex Woolf 17 Ireland, c.900-c.1000 268
Edel Bhreathnach 18 Ireland, c.1000-c.1100 285
Sean Duffy 19 Northumbria 303
William M. Aird 20 Southumbria 322
Charles Insley 21 Wales and West Britain 341
John Reuben Davies 22 Britain, Ireland, and Europe, c.900-c.1100
358
Simon MacLean 23 The Institutional Church 376
Catherine Cubitt 24 Pastoral Care and Religious Belief 395
Catherine Cubitt 25 Nobility 414
Julia Crick 26 Settlement and Social Differentiation 432
Sally Crawford 27 Localities 446
David E. Thornton 28 Queens and Queenship 459
Pauline Stafford
Bibliography 477
Index 524
About the Author
Pauline Stafford is Professor Emerita at LiverpoolUniversity,
previously Professor of Medieval History. She is aspecialist in the
history of Anglo-Saxon England and of women andgender in England
and Europe from the eighth to twelfth centuries.Her previous
publications include Queens, Concubines andDowagers, the King s
Wife in the Early Middle Ages (1983,1998), Unification and
Conquest, a Political and Social Historyof England in the Tenth and
Eleventh Centuries (1989), QueenEmma and Queen Edith (1997, 2001),
Law, Laity andSolidarities (2001), Gender, Family and the
Legitimation ofPower: England from the Ninth to Early Twelfth
Century (2006),and the jointly edited Gendering the Middle Ages
(2000).
Reviews
?The concise presentation of complex information in introductory
form is a great talent? The fact that all chapters of the book are
consistently clear and readable as introductions to the
non-specialist is impressive. That they challenge us conceptually
and push at the boundaries of our understanding as well as our
knowledge is more so.? ?Reference Reviews
