Secondary Literature

Material Culture, Archaeology, Iconography

• Dornier, A., ed., Mercian Studies (Leicester, 1977)
• Rahtz, P., 'The Archaeology of West Mercian Towns', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 107-29
• Cramp, R., 'Schools of Mercian Sculpture', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 191-233
• Grierson, P., 'Mint Output in the Time of Offa', Dark Age Numismatics: Selected Studies by Philip Grierson, Variorum Collected Studies Series 96 (London, 1979), no. 25, 1-4
• Grierson, P., 'Some Aspects of the Coinage of Offa', Dark Age Numismatics: Selected Studies by Philip Grierson, Variorum Collected Studies Series 96 (London, 1979), no. 26, 1-9
• Plunkett, S. J., 'Mercian and West Saxon Decorative Stone-Sculpture: Schools, Styles, and Patterns of Influence' (PhD diss., University of Cambridge, 1984)
• Bassett, S. R., 'A Probable Mercian Royal Mausoleum at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire', Antiquaries Journal 65 (1985), 82-100
• Taylor, H. M., 'St. Wystan's Church, Repton, Derbyshire. A Reconstruction Essay', Archaeological Journal 144 (1988 for 1987), 205-45
• Hawkes, A. J., 'The Non-Crucifixion Iconography of the pre-Viking Sculpture in the North of England: Carvings at Hovingham, Masham, Rothbury, Sandbach and Wirksworth (PhD diss., University of Newcastle, 1989)
• Bailey, R. N., The Meaning of Mercian Sculpture, Brixworth Lectures ss 6 (Leicester, 1990)
• Higham, N. J., 'Northumbria, Mercia and the Irish Sea Norse, 893-926', Viking Treasure from the North West: The Cuerdale Hoard in its Context. Selected Papers from The Vikings of the Irish Sea Conference, Liverpool, 18-20 May 1990, ed. J. Graham-Campbell, National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, Occasional Papers, Liverpool Museum 5 (Liverpool, 1992), 21-30
• Woodfield, P., 'An Anglo-Saxon Stone from the Church of St. Lawrence, Towcester', Northamptonshire Archaeology 24 (1992) 102-4
• Hawkes, J., 'The Wirksworth Slab: An Iconography of humilitas', Peritia (1995), 246-89
• Atkin, M. A., 'The Land between Ribble and Mersey in the Early Tenth Century', Names, Places and People: An Onomastic Miscellany in Memory of John McNeal Dodgson, ed. A. R. Rumble and A. D. Mills (Stamford, 1997), 8-18
• Bailey, K., 'Aspects of Anglo-Saxon Middlesex: Harrow and Hayes', Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 9, ed. D. W. Griffiths (Oxford, 1998), pp. 63-74
• Booth, J., 'Monetary Alliance or Technical Co-Operation? The Coinage of Berhtwulf of Mercia (840-852)', Kings, Currency and Alliances: History and Coinage of Southern England in the Ninth Century, ed. M. A. S. Blackburn and D. N. Dumville, Studies in Anglo-Saxon History 9 (Woodbridge, 1998), pp. 63-103
• Oosthuizen, S., 'The Origins of Cambridgeshire', Antiquaries Journal 78 (1998), 85-109
• Wainwright, F. T., 'North-West Mercia, AD 871-924', Wirral and its Viking Heritage, ed. P. Cavill, S. E. Harding and J. Jesch, English Place-Name Society Popular Series 2 (Nottingham, 2000), pp. 19-42
• Parsons, D., 'The Mercian Church: Archaeology and Topography', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 51-68
• Welch, M., 'The Archaeology of Mercia', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 147-60
• Hooke, D., 'Mercia: Landscape and Environment', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 161-72
• Hill, D., 'Mercians: The Dwellers on the Boundary', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 173-82
• Hill, D., 'The Shiring of Mercia - Again', Edward the Elder, 899-924, ed. N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill (London, 2001), 144-59
• Vince, A., 'The Growth of Market Centres and Towns in the Area of the Mercian Hegemony', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 183-93
• Cowie, R., 'Mercian London', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 194-209
• Williams, G., 'Mercian Coinage and Authority', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 211-28
• Griffiths, D. W., 'The North-West Frontier', Edward the Elder, 899-924, ed. N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill, (London, 2001), pp. 167-87
• Hawkes, J., 'Constructing Iconographies: Questions of Identity in Mercian Sculpture', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 231-45
• Jewell, R., 'Classicism of Southumbrian Sculpture', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 247-62
• Webster, L., 'Metalwork of the Mercian Supremacy', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 263-77
• Bailey, R. N., Anglo-Saxon Sculptures at Deerhurst, Deerhurst Lecture 2002 (Deerhurst, 2002)
• Chick, D., 'The Coinage of Offa in the Light of Recent Discoveries', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia. Papers from a Conference Held in Manchester in 2000, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 383 (Oxford, 2005), pp. 111-12
• Archibald, M. M., 'Beonna and Alberht: Coinage and Historical Context', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2005), pp. 123-32
• Maddicott, J., 'London and Droitwich, c.650-750: Trade, Industry, and the Rise of Mercia', Anglo-Saxon England 34 (2005), 7-58
• Gannon, A., 'Riches in Heaven and on Earth: Some Thoughts on the Iconography of Coinage at the Time of Æthelbald', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia. Papers from a Conference Held in Manchester in 2000, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 383 (Oxford, 2005), pp. 133-8
• Worthington, M., 'Offa's Dyke', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia. Papers from a Conference Held in Manchester in 2000, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 383 (Oxford, 2005), pp. 91-6
• Hill, D. and M. Worthington, ed., Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia. Papers from a Conference Held in Manchester in 2000, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 383 (Oxford, 2005)
• Hill, D., 'The Eighth-Century Urban Landscape', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia. Papers from a Conference Held in Manchester in 2000, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports, British Series 383 (Oxford, 2005), pp. 97-102
• Naismith, R., 'An Offa you Can't Refuse? Eighth-Century Mercian Titulature on Coins and in Charters', Quaestio Insularis 7 (2006), 89-118
• Bagshaw, S., Bryant, R. and Hare, M., 'The Discovery of an Anglo-Saxon Painted Figure at St Mary’s Church, Deerhurst, Gloucestershire', Antiquaries Journal 86 (2006), 66–109
• Gem, R., Deerhurst and Rome: Æthelric's Pilgrimage c. 804 and the Oratory of St Mary Mediana, Deerhurst Lecture 2007 (Deerhurst 2008)
• Oosthuizen, S.., 'The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia and the Origins and Distribution of Common Fields',' Agricultural History Review 55 (2007), 153-80
• Hawkes, J. 'Gregory the Great and the Angelic Mediation: The Anglo-Saxon Crosses of the Derbyshire Peaks', Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin, ed. A. J. Minnis and J. Roberts, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 18 (Turnhout, 2007), 431-48
• Bassett, S., 'The Middle and Late Anglo-Saxon Defences of Western Mercian Towns', Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 15, ed. S. Crawford and H. Hamerow (Oxford, 2008), pp. 180-239
• Williams, G. 'Burgred “Lunette” Type E Reconsidered', British Numismatic Journal 78 (2008 for 2007), 222-7
• Bassett, S., 'Divide and Rule? The Military Infrastructure of Eighth- and Ninth-century Mercia', Early Medieval Europe 15 (2007), 53-85
• Bassett, S., 'Anglo-Saxon Warwick', Midland History 34 (2009), 123-55
• Bassett, S., 'The Landed Endowment of the Anglo-Saxon Minster at Hanbury (Worcs.)', Anglo-Saxon England 38 (2010 for 2009), 77-100
• Gem, R., Architecture, Liturgy and Romanitas at All Saints' Church, Brixworth, Brixworth Lectures ss 8 (Leicester, 2011)
• Bassett, S., 'Anglo-Saxon Fortifications in Western Mercia', Midland History 36 (2011), 1-23
• Tyler, D.J.. 'Offa’s Dyke: A Historiographical Appraisal', Journal of Medieval History 37 (2011), 145-61
• Zaluckyj, S., Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England (Almeley, 2011)
• Bergius, G. C. C., 'The Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture of Mercia as Evidence for Continental Influence and Cultural Exchange' (PhD diss., University of Durham, 2012)
• Hare, M., ' Anglo-Saxon Berkeley: History and Topography' , Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 18, ed. H. Hamerow (2012), 119–56
• Parsons, D., and D. S. Sutherland, The Anglo-Saxon Church of All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire: Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 1972-2010 (Oxford, 2013)
• Symons, D., 'A Small Hoard of Burgred Pennies from Banbury Castle, Oxfordshire', Early Medieval Monetary History: Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn, ed. R. Naismith, M. R. Allen and E. Screen (Farnham, 2014), pp. 409-12
• Mackay, W. A., 'The Coinage of Burgred of Mercia 852-874', British Numismatic Journal 85 (2015), 101-237
• Bryant, R., Making Much of What Remains: Reconstructing Deerhurst's Anglo-Saxon Paint and Sculpture, Deerhurst Lecture 2014 (Deerhurst, 2015)
• Naismith, R., 'Kings, Moneyers, and Royal Imagery in the Late Eighth Century: Offa's Coinage in Context', Anglo-Saxon England and the Visual Imagination, ed. J. D. Niles, S. S. Klein and J. Wilcox, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 461 (Tempe, 2016), pp. 85-98
• Webster, L. E., ''Wundorsmiþa geweorc': A Mercian Sword-Pommel from the Beckley area, Oxfordshire', Crossing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Art, Material Culture, Language and Literature of the Early Medieval World, ed. E. Cambridge and J. Hawkes (Oxford, 2017), 97-111
• Capper, M. and M. Scully, 'Ancient Objects with Modern Meanings: Museums, Volunteers, and the Anglo-Saxon 'Staffordshire Hoard' as a Marker of Twenty-First Century Regional Identity', Ethnic and Racial Studies 39 (2016), pp. 181-203
• Tompkins, A. E.I., 'Transformation in the Avon valley from the late Fourth to Seventh Centuries AD: A Case Study from the West Midlands, England', Interpreting Transformations of People and Landscapes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Archaeological Approaches and Issues, ed. P. Diarte Blasco and N. Christie (Oxford, 2018), pp. 83-93
• Hare, M., 'The Anglo-Saxon Church of St Mary, Deerhurst: A Reassessment of the Early Structural History', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 136 (2018), 197–235
• Fern, C., T. Dickinson and L. Webster, ed., The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure, Research Report of the Society of Antiquaries of London 80 (London, 2019)
• Naismith, R., 'Two Important Coins of the Mercian Supremacy', British Numismatic Journal 89 (2019), 203-8
• Blair, J., 'Beyond the Billingas: From Lay Wealth to Monastic Wealth on the Lincolnshire Fen-Edge', The Land of the English Kin: Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke, ed. A. J. Langlands and R. Lavelle, Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 26 (Leiden, 2020), pp. 387-406
• Speake, G., 'Helmets and Headaches: Thoughts on the Staffordshire Hoard Helmet', Barbaric Splendour: The Use of Image Before and After Rome, ed. T. F. Martin and W. Morrison (Oxford, 2020), pp. 61-77
• Reynolds, A., 'A Possible Anglo-Saxon Execution Cemetery at Werg, Mildenhall (Cvnetio), Wiltshire and the Wessex-Mercia Frontier in the Age of King Cynewulf', The Land of the English Kin: Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke, ed. A. J. Langlands and R. Lavelle, Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages 26 (Leiden, 2020), 245-75
• Fern, C., ''Magnificent was the Cross of Victory': The Great Gold Cross from the Staffordshire Hoard', Barbaric Splendour: The Use of Image Before and After Rome, ed. T. F. Martin and W. Morrison (Oxford, 2020). pp. 78-101
• Bryant, R., M. Hare, and C. , 'St Mary's Church, Deerhurst: Excavations in 2012 and the Recording of the South Aisle 2015-19', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 139 (2021), 183-211
• Williams, H., 'Rethinking Wat’s Dyke: A Monument’s Flow in a Hydraulic Frontier Zone', Offa’s Dyke Journal (2021), 151-82
• Naismith, R., 'Bige habban: An Introduction to Money, Trade and Cross-border Traffic', Offa’s Dyke Journal, 4 (2022), 16-35
• Bailey, H. M., 'St Rumwold in the Borderland', Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature, ed. M. Atherton, K. Karasawa and F. Leneghan, Studies in Old English Literature 1 (Turnhout, 2022), pp. 249-72
• Ray, K., 'The Organisation of the Mid-Late Anglo-Saxon Borderland with Wales', Offa’s Dyke Journal 4 (2022), 132-53
• Story, J., Charlemagne and Rome: Alcuin and the Epitaph of Pope Hadrian I (Oxford, 2023)

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