Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-ix

List of Contributors

pp x-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England

pp 1-16

Part I - Material Culture

pp 17-18

Chapter 1 - The Global Triumph of Bread Wheat: The Role of Early Medieval England

pp 19-33

Chapter 2 - Globalizing Anglo-Saxon Art

pp 34-52

Chapter 3 - Minding the Gaps: Early Medieval Elite Sites in England and the Perimeters of Current Knowledge

pp 53-74

Part II - Crossing Borders

pp 75-76

Chapter 4 - Imagination at the Edge of the World: Luxuriating Women in Vercelli Homily VII and a Resistant Audience

pp 77-93

Chapter 5 - Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon ‘Heptarchy’: Hārūn ibn Yahyā's Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain

pp 94-114

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

pp 115-136

Part III - Origins And Comparisons

pp 137-138

Chapter 7 - Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Origins from a Eurasian Perspective

pp 139-170

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

pp 171-189

Chapter 9 - Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: Exploring Anamorphic Comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon Missions and the Anglican Melanesian Mission

pp 190-216

Chapter 10 - Anglo-Saxons on Exhibit: Displaying the Sacred

pp 217-244

Index

pp 245-253

Anglo-Saxon Studies

pp 254-256