Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors x
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. Introduction: Global Perspectives on Early Medieval England 1
8. I: Material Culture
9. 1. The Global Triumph of Bread Wheat: The Role of Early Medieval England 19
10. 2. Globalizing Anglo-Saxon Art 34
11. 3. Minding the Gaps: Early Medieval Elite Sites in England and the Perimeters of Current Knowledge 53
12. II: Crossing Borders
13. 4. Imagination at the Edge of the World: Luxuriating Women in Vercelli Homily VII and a Resistant Audience 77
14. 5. Britain, the Byzantine Empire, and the Concept of an Anglo-Saxon ‘Heptarchy’: Hārūn ibn Yahyā’s Ninth-century Arabic Description of Britain 94
15. 6. Wulfstan in Truso: Old English Text, Baltic Archaeology, and World History 115
16. III: Origins and Comparisons
17. 7. Reassessing Anglo-Saxon Origins from a Eurasian Perspective 139
18. 8. Historical Origins of a Mythical History: The Formation of the Myth Supporting Anglo-Saxonism Reconsidered 171
19. 9. Boniface and Bede in the Pacific: Exploring Anamorphic Comparisons between the Hiberno-Saxon Missions and the Anglican Melanesian Mission 190
20. 10. Anglo-Saxons on Exhibit: Displaying the Sacred 217
21. Index 245