Mercian Network
Resources on the History, Literature, Language and Material Culture of Mercia
News and Events
2 November 2024: Brixworth Annual Lecture, Brixworth Church, 5pm, Prof. Rory Naismith, 'The Reign of Offa of Mercia in Context'
21 September 2024: Deerhurst Lecture, Deerhurst Church, 7.30pm, Prof. Michelle Brown, 'The Mercian Marches and their Manuscripts'. See this link for further details
4 July 2024: International Medieval Congress Leeds: Session 1505 Mercian Studies I: Cultural Standards, Mathew Clear, 'The Seventh-Century Easter Controversy in Southumbria', Luisa Ostacchini, 'Writing Mercia in the Old English Martyrology', Jane Hawkes, 'Downgrading the Crisis: Studying Mercian Sculpture in Early Medieval England', Session 1605 Mercian Studies II: Midland Borderland, Andrew Sargent, 'Meeting the Marchers: The Power of Place in the Late Antique Midlands', Amanda Doviak, 'Visualising Christianity in Crisis: Reconsidering the Viking-Age Sculptural Iconographies of Mercia', Christine Rauer, 'The Register of Texts and Manuscripts with a Mercian Element: Update', Session 1705 Mercian Studies III: Succession Crisis, Charles Insley and Keith Ray, 'The Succession to Offa, 796, Dynastic Crisis or Regime Changes?', Morn Capper, 'Crisis Averted? Predicting and Managing Crisis in the Mercian Kingdom in the Long Ninth Century', Michael Wood, 'Athelstan, King of the Mercians'
29 April 2024: The Berkeley Lecture, Worcester Archaeological Society, Dr Christine Rauer, 'The Contribution of Worcester to Mercian Literary Production'
23 April 2024: Research Talk, University of Oxford, Dr Christine Rauer, 'The Earliest Insular Almanac? Types of Information in Old English and Insular Latin Calendrical Texts'
22 November 2023: Research Talk, University of St Andrews, Prof. Francis Leneghan, 'Beowulf and the Wrath of God'.
28 October 2023: Brixworth Annual Lecture 2023, Dr Helen Gittos (University of Oxford), 'Christianity before Conversion in Early Medieval England', Brixworth Church, 7.30pm
27 October 2023: Hybrid event Institute of Historical Research London, Vanessa King (Birkbeck), 'Aethelswith Crowned Queen of Mercia', 5.30pm-7.30pm; book via this link
27 September 2023: Prof. Nicholas Orme (University of Exeter), 'Going to Church in Medieval Lichfield', Lichfield Cathedral, 6pm
23 September 2023: Deerhurst Lecture 2023, Prof. John Hines (Cardiff University), 'A Routeway in a Borderzone: Deerhurst against the Background of Early Medieval Settlement around the Lower Severn', Deerhurst Church, 7.30pm
23 September 2023: Second International Southwell History and Archaeology Conference, at Southwell Minster, see this link for registration and further details
22 September 2023: 'An Afternoon with Orm: Celebrating a New Edition of the Ormulum', with papers by Dr Andrew Cooper (Stockholm), Dr Kees Dekker (Groningen), Prof. Laura Ashe (Oxford), Prof. Richard Dance (Cambridge), Dr Sara Pons-Sanz (Cardiff); St Hilda's College, Oxford. For further information, see this poster.
5 July 2023: International Medieval Congress Leeds: Session 1238 Mercian Studies I (Mercian Networks, 7th-9th Centuries): Máirín MacCarron, 'Queen Osthryth of Mercia in Secular and Ecclesiastical Networks'; Peter Darby, 'Torhthelm of Leicester's Letter to Boniface'; Alex Traves, 'A Wicked Queen and a Tyrannical King? Memories of Eadburh and Offa in Late 9th-Century Wessex'; Session 1338 Mercian Studies II (Mercian Sculpture, 7th-9th Centuries): Meg Boulton, 'Flights of Angels: Sculpted Stones and Shrines in Mercia'; Teresa Porciani, 'Figural Sculpture in Mercia: Revisiting the 'Peterborough School' (in the Light of Lichfield)'; Jane Hawkes, 'Deck the Hall: Sculpting Church Interiors in the East Midlands'; Session 1438 Mercian Studies III (Collecting Mercian Materials: A Round Table Discussion): Jessica Hodgkinson, Emily Kesling, Francis Leneghan, Christine Rauer and Joanna Story.
