Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England

Interrogations of materiality and geography, narrative framework and boundaries, and the ways these scholarly pursuits ripple out into the wider cultural sphere.

Introduction: Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England -- Karen Louise Jolly and Britton Elliott BrooksPart I Material Culture1 The Global Triumph of Bread Wheat: The Role of Early Medieval England -- Debby Banham2 Globalizing Anglo-Saxon Art -- Jane Hawkes3 Minding the Gaps: Early Medieval Elite Sites in England and the Perimeters of Current Knowledge -- Carol Neuman de VegvarPart II Crossing Borders4 Imagination at the Edge of the World: Luxuriating Women in Vercelli Homily VII and a Resistant Audience -- Jonathan Wilcox5 Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'Heptarchy': Harun ibn Yahya's Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain -- Caitlin R. Green6 Wulfstan in Truso: Old English Text, Baltic Archaeology, and World History -- John HinesPart III Origins and Comparisons7 Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Origins from a Eurasian Perspective -- John D. Niles8 Historical Origins of a Mythical History: The Formation of the Myth Supporting Anglo-Saxonism Reconsidered -- Kazutomo Karasawa9 Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: Exploring Anamorphic Comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon Missions and the Anglican Melanesian Mission -- Michael W. Scott10 Anglo-Saxons on Exhibit: Displaying the Sacred -- Karen Louise Jolly