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xxvi, 339 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
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Originally published: 2003. |
Contents |
The Kingdom of Northumbria: -- Kingdoms, peoples and nations: Northumbria in context -- The kingdom of Northumbria: frontiers and heartlands -- The Creation of Northumbria -- The Northumbrians: origins of a people -- Culture and identity in pre-Viking Northumbria -- The framework of power: government, aristocracy, and the church -- The Destruction of Northumbria -- The Northumbrian 'successor states': -- The fragmentation of Northumbria, 866/7-c. 1100 -- The Viking kingdom of York: political transformation? -- The Viking kingdom of York: ethnic transformation? -- The Viking kingdom of York: cultural transformation? -- North of the river Tees: the 'liberty' of the community of St Cuthbert and the earls of Bamburgh -- Cumbria --The English and Scottish impact: partition and absorption of the Northumbrian 'successor states' -- The west Saxon kings and the kings of England -- The kings of Scots and the origins of the Scottish border -- The Norman kings of England -- The shadow of the past. |
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9780521041027 |
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0521041023 |
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