David Rollason (University of Durham)

Northumbria, 500 1100

Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom

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Produktbeschreibung

This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, examining the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change which welded the large and disparate area between the Humber and the Firth of Forth into one of the most powerful kingdoms of early medieval England.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780521041027
• ISBN-10: 0521041023
• Artikelnr.: 23066449

Autorenporträt

David Rollason is Professor of History, University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of figures
List of maps
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Northumbria: map for general reference
Part I. The Kingdom of Northumbria: 1. Kingdoms, peoples and nations: Northumbria in context
2. The kingdom of Northumbria: frontiers and heartlands
Part II. The Creation of Northumbria: 3. The Northumbrians: origins of a people
4. Culture and identity in pre-Viking Northumbria
5. The framework of power: government, aristocracy and the church
Part III. The Destruction of Northumbria: 6. The Northumbrian 'successor states' - (a) The fragmentation of Northumbria, 866/7-c. 1100
(b) The Viking kingdom of York: political transformation?
(c) The Viking kingdom of York: ethnic transformation?
(d) The Viking kingdom of York: cultural transformation?
(e) North of the river Tees: the 'liberty' of the community of St Cuthbert and the earls of Bamburgh
(f) Cumbria
7. The English and Scottish impact: partition and absorption of the Northumbrian 'sucessor states' - (a) The west Saxon kings and the kings of England
(b) The kings of Scots and the origins of the Scottish border
(c) The Norman kings of England
(d) The shadow of the past
References
Index.