Northumbria, 500}}}1100 Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom [Paperback]

A study of the rise and fall of the large and powerful kingdom of Northumbria.This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, set in a wider European context. It examines the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change which, beginning after the end of the Roman Empire, welded the large and disparate area between the Humber and the Firth of Forth into one of the most powerful kingdoms of early medieval England, and thos which led to its disintegration and its replacement by political structures of northern England and southern Scotland.This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, set in a wider European context. It examines the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change which, beginning after the end of the Roman Empire, welded the large and disparate area between the Humber and the Firth of Forth into one of the most powerful kingdoms of early medieval England, and thos which led to its disintegration and its replacement by political structures of northern England and southern Scotland.This book traces the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, in a broader European context. It examines the ethnic, political, social and religious changes that (after the end of the Roman Empire) transformed the large and disparate area between the Humber and the Firth of Forth into one of the most powerful kingdoms of early medieval England. It also examines the subsequent changes which led to the kingdom's disintegration and its replacement by political structures of northern England and southern Scotland.List of illustrations; List of figures; List of maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Northumbria: map for general reference; Part I. The Kingdom of Northumbria: 1. Kingdoms, peoples and nations: Northumbria in context; 2. The kingdom of Northumbria: frontiers and heartlands; Part II. The Creation of Northumbria: 3. The Northumbrians: origins of a people; 4. Culture and identilã*