IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1238: Mercian Studies, I: Mercian Networks, 7th-9th Centuries
Wednesday 5 July 2023, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Leicester Medieval Research Centre |
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| Organiser: | Joanna Story, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester |
| Moderator/Chair: | Joanna Story, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester |
| Paper 1238-a | Queen Osthryth of Mercia in Secular and Ecclesiastical Networks (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Gender Studies, Hagiography |
| Paper 1238-b | Torthelm of Leicester's Letter to Boniface (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Rhetoric |
| Paper 1238-c | A Wicked Queen and a Tyrannical King?: Memories of Eadburh and Offa in Late 9th-Century Wessex (Language: English) Index terms: Gender Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy, Women's Studies |
| Abstract | Connections forged by Mercian men and women in the later 7th and 8th centuries are preserved primarily through texts written or preserved by people outside the kingdom. Memories of the secular elites were rarely curated within Mercia, and the written sources that survive often preserve a perspective distant in time or place from Mercia itself. This source bias contrasts with the apparent political, military, and religious dominance of Mercia within Britain in the 8th century and its connections with distant secular and ecclesiastical circles. |