Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England

Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction. Britton Elliott Brooks is assistant professor of English at Kyushu University. His research centres on the environmental humanities, focusing most recently on non-human soundscapes in early medieval literature and the role of the ocean in literature more broadly. DEBBY BANHAM is a tutor and special supervisor at Newnham College, Cambridge and an affiliated lecturer in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic. Britton Elliott Brooks is assistant professor of English at Kyushu University. His research centres on the environmental humanities, focusing most recently on non-human soundscapes in early medieval literature and the role of the ocean in literature more broadly. JANE HAWKES is Professor Emerita of Medieval Art History at the University of York and a leading specialist on Anglo-Saxon sculpture and iconography and its broader context in relation to late antique, British and Irish early medieval art. JOHN HINES is Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University. Karen Louise Jolly is professor of medieval European history at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research focuses on popular religion, marginal manuscripts, and re-imagining early medieval Britain through historical fiction. Kazutomo Karasawa is Professor of English philology at Rikkyo University, Tokyo.

• 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 Vegvar Part II Crossing Borders4 Imagination at the Edge of the World: Luxuriating Women in Vercelli Homily VII and a Resistant Audience -- Jonathan Wilcox 5 Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'Heptarchy': Harun ibn Yahya's Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain -- Caitlin R. Green 6 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. Niles 8 Historical Origins of a Mythical History: The Formation of the Myth Supporting Anglo-Saxonism Reconsidered -- Kazutomo Karasawa 9 Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: Exploring Anamorphic Comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon Missions and the Anglican Melanesian Mission -- Michael W. Scott 10 Anglo-Saxons on Exhibit: Displaying the Sacred -- Karen Louise Jolly

A welcome collection by distinguished scholars that is excellent throughout but especially so when exploring Oceania and islander perspectives.