IMC 2003: Sessions
Session 204: Trans-Pennine Contacts, 600-1100: North-Western England and its Northumbrian World
Monday 14 July 2003, 14.15-15.45
Organiser: | John Blair, Queen's College, University of Oxford |
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Moderator/Chair: | John Blair, Queen's College, University of Oxford |
Paper 204-a | Beyond Subsistence?: Determining the Impact of East-West Links on Economic Change in Western Northumbria, c. 650-1100 (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Artefacts, Economics - Rural, Economics - Trade, Local History |
Paper 204-b | Wilfrid's Lands?: The Lune Valley in its Anglian Context (Language: English) Index terms: Art History - Sculpture, Ecclesiastical History, Local History, Monasticism |
Paper 204-c | The Jarrow Connection: How Northumbrian was Cumbria in the 8th and 9th Centuries? (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Local History, Monasticism |
Abstract | Although an exceptionally poorly documented region of England in the early Middle Ages, the north-west raises important questions of cultural identity and interchange: how much did it owe to its (Romano-)British roots, to sea-borne influences from Ireland, Man and Scandinavia, or to the Anglian societies east of the Pennines? This session presents recent research on trans-Pennine links, focusing on economic patterns revealed by excavation, topographical analysis an metal-detected small finds; on sculptural evidence for links between the major Wilfridian centres and the churches of the Lune valley; and on the excavated Cumbrian minster at Dacre, which Bede mentions in the context of a St. Cuthbert miracle. |