'Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 20' is based upon the proceedings of an international conference held to celebrate the results of excavations targeting the Anglo-Saxon royal centre and monastery of Lyminge, Kent, 2008-2015. Drawing upon the contributions of leading historians and archaeologists, the volume provides a fresh examination of monasticism in Anglo-Saxon Kent framed within its wider north-west European context, together with a range of complementary perspectives on the interlinked themes of Christianisation, kingdom formation and monastic expansion vividly illuminated through the archaeology of Lyminge.
Author(s): Gabor Thomas, Alexandra Knox (eds.)
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, 20
Publisher: Oxford University School of Archaeology
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 158
List of Contributors vii
Foreword by John Blair ix
Gabor Thomas / Introduction: early medieval monasticism in the North Sea zone: recent research and new perspectives 1
Part I: Continental connections: re-examining the Frankish background to monasticism in Anglo-Saxon Kent
Barbara Yorke / Queen Balthild's 'monastic policy' and the origins of female religious houses in southern England 7
Ian Wood / Merovingian monasticism and England 17
Part II: Re-conceptualizing early medieval monastic space: comparative archaeological approaches
Rosemary Cramp / New perspectives on monastic buildings and their uses 27
David Petts / Places and spaces: some reflections on reconstructing the spatial organization of Northumbrian monasteries 43
Elisabeth Lorans / Marmoutier (Tours), a late Roman and early medieval monastery in the Loire Valley (fourth–eleventh centuries) 55
Tomás Ó Carragáin / Vernacular form, monastic practice in the early Middle Ages: evidence from Toureen Peakaun 67
Tony Wilmott / The Anglian abbey of Streonæshalch-Whitby: new perspectives on topography and layout 81
Part III: From tribal centre to royal monastery: Anglo-Saxon Lyminge explored through its archaeology
Gabor Thomas / Monasteries and places of power in pre-Viking England: trajectories, relationships and interactions 97
Rose Broadley / Preliminary observations on the Anglo-Saxon glass from Lyminge 117
Mark McKerracher / Seeds and status: the archaeobotany of monastic Lyminge 127
Zoe Knapp / Changing tastes: farming, feasting and fasting at Lyminge 135
