Mercian Network

Resources on the History, Literature, Language and Material Culture of Mercia

Secondary Literature

Political History, Ecclesiastical History

• Stenton, F. M., 'The Supremacy of the Mercian Kings (F.p.1918)', Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England: Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton, ed. D. M. Stenton (Oxford, 1970), 48-66
• Hart, C., 'The Tribal Hidage', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society 21 (1971), 133-57
• Wainwright, F. T., 'North-West Mercia. A.D. 871-924', Scandinavian England: Collected Papers by F.T. Wainwright, ed. H. P. R. Finberg (Chichester, 1975), pp. 63-129
• Wainwright, F. T., 'Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians', Scandinavian England: Collected Papers by F.T. Wainwright, ed H. P. R. Finberg (Chichester, 1975), pp. 305-24
• Dornier, A., ed., Mercian Studies (Leicester, 1977)
• Davies, W., 'Annals and the Origin of Mercia', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 17-29
• Kirby, D. P., 'Welsh Bards and the Border', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 31-42
• Hart, C., 'The Kingdom of Mercia', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 43-61
• Pythian-Adams, C., 'Rutland Reconsidered', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 63-84
• Metcalf, D. M., 'Monetary Affairs in Mercia in the Time of Æthelbald', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 87-106
• Williams, J., 'The Early Development of the Town of Northampton', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 131-52
• Dornier, A., 'The Anglo-Saxon Monastery at Breedon-on-the-Hill, Leicestershire', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 155-68
• Rumble, A., 'Hrepingas Reconsidered', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 169-72
• Parsons, D., 'Brixworth and its Monastery Church', Mercian Studies, ed. A. Dornier (Leicester, 1977), pp. 173-90
• Locherbie-Cameron, M. A. L., 'Ælfwine's Kinsmen and "The Battle of Maldon"', Notes and Queries 25 (1978), 486-7
• Shippee, L. A., 'Treachery in Late Anglo-Saxon England: The Case of Eadric Streona, Ealdorman of Mercia 1007-1017', Old English Newsletter 12 (1979), 27-8
• Wormald, P., 'The Age of Bede and Aethelbald', The Anglo-Saxons, ed. J. Campbell (Oxford, 1982), pp. 70-9, 82-100, 250-1
• Wormald, P., 'The Age of Offa and Alcuin', The Anglo-Saxons, ed. J. Campbell (Oxford, 1982), pp. 101, 104-29, 251-2
• Williams, A., 'Princeps Merciorum gentis: The Family, Career and Connections of Ælfhere, Ealdorman of Mercia 956-83', Anglo-Saxon England 10 (1982), 143-72
• Brooks, N., The Early History of the Church of Canterbury (Leicester, 1984)
• Stafford, P., The East Midlands in the Early Middle Ages (Leicester, 1985)
• Mason, E., 'Change and Continuity in Eleventh-Century Mercia: The Experience of St. Wulfstan of Worcester', Anglo-Norman Studies, VIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1985, ed. R. A. Brown, Anglo-Norman Studies 8 (Woodbridge, 1986), pp. 154-76
• Witney, K.P., 'The Period of Mercian Rule in Kent, and a Charter of A.D.811', Archaeologia Cantiana 104 (1988 for 1987), 87-113
• Maund, K.L., 'The Welsh Family Alliances of Earl Ælfgar of Mercia and his Family in the Mid-Eleventh Century', Anglo-Norman Studies, XI: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1988, ed. R. A. Brown, Anglo-Norman Studies 11 (Woodbridge, 1989), pp. 181-90
• Brooks, N. P., 'The Formation of the Mercian Kingdom', The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, ed. S. Bassett (London, 1989), pp. 159-70 and 275-7
• Bassett, S., ‘In Search of the Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms’, The Origins of Anglo-Saxon England, ed S. Bassett (London, 1989), pp. 3-27
• Gelling, M., 'The Early History of Western Mercia', The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, ed. S. Bassett (London, 1989), pp. 184-201 and 279-280
• Blair, J., 'Frithuwold's Kingdom and the Origins of Surrey', The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, ed. S. Bassett (London, 1989), pp. 97-107 and 263-5
• Blair, J., 'The Chertsey Resting-Place List and the Enshrinement of Frithuwold', The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, ed. S. Bassett (London, 1989), pp. 231-6 and 287-8
• Dumville, D. N., 'Essex, Middle Anglia, and the Expansion of Mercia in the South-East Midlands', The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, ed. S. Bassett (London, 1989), pp. 123-40
• Keynes, S., 'Changing Faces - Offa, King of Mercia', History Today 40 (1990), 14-19
• Bassett, S., ‘Lincoln and the Anglo-Saxon See of Lindsey’, Anglo-Saxon England 18 (1990), 1-32
• Wainwright, F. T., 'Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians', New Readings on Women in Old English Literature, ed. H. Damico and A. H. Olsen (Bloomington, 1990), pp. 44-55
• Bassett, S., ‘Anglo-Saxon Shrewsbury and its Churches’, Midland History 16 (1991), 1-23
• Wormald, P., 'In search of King Offa's "Law-code', People and Places in Northern Europe 500-1600: Essays in Honour of Peter Hayes Sawyer, ed. I. Wood and N. Lund (Woodbridge, 1991), pp. 25-45
• Kelly, S. E., 'Trading Privileges from Eighth-Century England', Early Medieval Europe 1 (1992), 3-28
• Bassett, S., ‘Medieval Ecclesiastical Organisation in the Vicinity of Wroxeter, Shropshire, and its British Antecedents’, Journal of the British Archaeological Association 145 (1992), 1-28
• Keynes, S., 'The Control of Kent in the Ninth Century', Early Medieval Europe, 2 (1993), 111-31
• Wormald, P., How do we Know So Much about Anglo-Saxon Deerhurst?, Deerhurst Lecture 1991 (Deerhurst, 1993)
• Hunt, J., 'Piety, Prestige or Politics? The House of Leofric and the Foundation and Patronage of Coventry Priory', Coventry's First Cathedral: The Cathedral and Priory of Saint Mary. Papers from the 1993 Anniversary Symposium, ed. G. Demidowicz (Stamford, 1994), pp. 97-117
• Peterson, C. M., 'Studies in the Early History of Peterborough Abbey c. 650 - c. 1066' (PhD diss., University of Birmingham, 1995)
• Bowman, P., 'Settlement, Territory, and Land Use in the East Midlands: The Langton Hundred c. 150BC - c. AD 1350' (PhD diss., University of Leicester, 1995)
• Brooks, N. and C. Cubitt, ed., St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence (Leicester, 1996)
• Bullough, D., 'St Oswald: Monk, Bishop and Archbishop', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 1-22
• Nightingale, J., 'Oswald, Fleury and continental reform', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 23-45
• Wareham, A., 'St Oswald's Family and Kin', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 46-63
• Lapidge, M., 'Byrhtferth and Oswald', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 64-83
• Barrow, J., 'The Community of Worcester, 961-c.1100', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 84-99
• King, V., 'St Oswald's Tenants', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 100-16
• Wormald, P., 'Oswaldslow: An Immunity', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 117-28
• Baker, N. and R. Holt, 'The City of Worcester in the Tenth Century', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 129-46
• Rumble, A. R., ‘The Tribal Hidage: An Annotated Bibliography’, The Defence of Wessex: The Burghal Hidage and Anglo-Saxon Fortification, ed. D. Hill and A. R. Rumble (Manchester, 1996), pp. 182–8
• Bassett, S., 'The Administrative Landscape of the Diocese of Worcester in the Tenth Century', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 147-73
• Dyer, C., 'St Oswald and 10,000 West Midland Peasants', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 174-98
• Mason, E., 'St Oswald and St Wulfstan', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 269-84
• Thacker, A., 'Saint-Making and Relic Collecting by Oswald and his Communities', St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence, ed. N. Brooks and C. Cubitt (Leicester, 1996), pp. 244-68
• Keynes, S., ‘King Alfred and the Mercians’, 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. 1–45
• Bassett, S., The Origins of the Parishes of the Deerhurst Area, The Deerhurst Lecture for 1997 (1998)
• Keynes, S., Anglo-Saxon History: A Select Bibliography, Old English Newsletter Subsidia 13 (Kalamazoo, 1998), esp. pp. 15-19 (Mercian religious houses, Religious Houses in the Fens), pp. 57-63 (The supremacy of the Mercian Kings), pp. 118-20 (Mercian royal saints)
• Szarmach, P. E., 'Æthelflæd of Mercia: Mise en page', Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson, ed. P. S. Baker and N. Howe (Toronto, 1998), pp. 105-26
• Heighway, C. and Bryant, R., The Golden Minster: The Anglo-Saxon Minster and Later Medieval Priory of St Oswald at Gloucester, Council for British Archaeology Research Report 117 (1999)
• Hillaby, J., 'King Burgred, the Severn Stoke Coin Hoard and the Demise of the Mercian Kingdom', Transactions of the Worcester Archaeological Society 17 (2000), 125-48
• Bassett, S., ‘Anglo-Saxon Birmingham’, Midland History 25 (2000), 1-27
• Bassett, S., ‘How the West was Won: The Anglo-Saxon Takeover of the West Midlands’, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 11 (2000), 107-18
• Insley, C., 'Politics, Conflict and Kinship in Early Eleventh-Century Mercia', Midland History 25 (2000), 28-42
• Keynes, S., ‘Mercia and Wessex in the Ninth Century’, Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 310-28
• Yorke, B., 'The Origins of Mercia', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 13-22
• Bassett, S., Anglo-Saxon Coventry and its Churches, Dugdale Society Occasional Papers, no. 41 (2001)
• Featherstone, P., 'The Tribal Hidage and the Ealdormen of Mercia', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 23-34
• Stafford, P., 'Political Women in Mercia, Eighth to Early Tenth Centuries', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 35-49
• Charles-Edwards, T. M., 'Wales and Mercia, 613-918', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 89-105
• Woolf, A., 'The Verturian Hegemony: A Mirror in the North', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 106-12
• Bhreathnach, E., 'Abbesses, Minor Dynasties and Kings in clericatu: Perspectives of Ireland, 700-850', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 113-25
• Nelson, J. L., 'Carolingian Contacts', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 127-44
• Williams, G., 'Military Institutions and Royal Power', Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, ed. J. P. Brown and C. A. Farr (London, 2001), pp. 294-309
• Hill, D., 'The Shiring of Mercia - Again', Edward the Elder, 899-924, ed. N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill (London, 2001), pp. 144-59
• Baxter, S., 'The Earls of Mercia and their Commended Men in the Mid Eleventh Century', Anglo-Norman Studies, XXIII: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2000, ed. J. B. Gillingham, Anglo-Norman Studies 23 (Woodbridge, 2001), pp. 23-46
• Bailey, M., 'Ælfwynn, Second Lady of the Mercians', Edward the Elder, 899-924, ed. N. J. Higham and D. H. Hill (London, 2001), pp. 112-27
• Cumberledge, N., 'Reading Between the Lines: The Place of Mercia within an Expanding Wessex', Midland History 27 (2002), 1-15
• Tyler, D. J., 'Kingship and Conversion: Constructing pre-Viking Mercia' (PhD diss., University of Manchester, 2002)
• Baxter, S., 'The Leofwinesons: Power, Property and Patronage in the Early English Kingdom' (DPhil diss., University of Oxford, 2002)
• Cumberledge, N., 'Reading Between the Lines: The Place of Mercia within an Expanding Wessex', Midland History 27 (2002), 1-15

• Story, J., Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, c. 750-870 (Aldershot, 2003)

• Keynes, S., 'The Kingdom of the Mercians in the Eighth Century', 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. 1-26
• Story, J., 'Charlemagne and the Anglo-Saxons', Charlemagne: Empire and Society, ed. J. Story (Manchester, 2005), pp. 195-210
• Tyler, D. J., 'An Early Mercian hegemony: Penda and Overkingship in the Seventh Century', Midland History 30 (2005), 1-19
• Tyler, D. J., 'Orchestrated Violence and the “Supremacy of the Mercian Kings”', 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. 27-34
• Williams, G., 'Military Obligations and Mercian Supremacy in the Eighth Century', 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. 103-10
• Foot, S., Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England c.600-900 (Cambridge, 2006)
• Pratt, D., The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great (Cambridge, 2007)
• Burghart, M. A., 'The Mercian Polity 716-918' (PhD diss., King's College London, 2007)
• Baxter, S., The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 2007)
• Capper, M. D. T., 'Contested Loyalties: Regional and National Identities in the Midland Kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, c. 700-c. 900 ' (PhD diss., University of Sheffield, 2008)
• Gem, R., Deerhurst and Rome: Æthelric's Pilgrimage c. 804 and the Oratory of St Mary Mediana, Deerhurst Lecture 2007 (Deerhurst 2008)
• Stafford, P. A., 'The Annals of Æthelflæd': Annals, History and Politics in Early Tenth-Century England', Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, ed. J. Barrow and A. Wareham (Aldershot, 2008), pp. 101-16
• Keynes, S., 'A Conspectus of the Charters of King Edgar, 957-75', Edgar, King of the English, 959-975: New Interpretations, ed. D. G. Scragg, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies 8 (Woodbridge, 2008), pp. 60-80
• Baxter, S. 'The Death of Burgheard Son of Ælfgar and its Context', Frankland: The Franks and the World of the Early Middle Ages. Essays in Honour of Dame Jinty Nelson, ed. P. Fouracre and D. Ganz (Manchester, 2008), pp. 266-284, 322-23
• Insley, C., 'Southumbria', A Companion to the Early Middle Ages: Britain and Ireland, c. 500 - c. 1100, ed. P. Stafford (Chichester, 2009), 322-40
• Kempen, A. D. F. J., van, 'The Mercian Connection, Harold Godwineson's Ambitions, Diplomacy and Channel-Crossing, 1056-1066', History 94 (2009), 2-19
• Tinti, F., Sustaining Belief: The Church of Worcester from c.870 to c.1100 (Farnham, 2010)

• Barrow, J., Who Served the Altar at Brixworth? Clergy in English Minsters c. 800-c.1100, Brixworth Lectures ss 9 (Brixworth, 2011)

• Zaluckyj, S., Mercia: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Central England (Almeley, 2011)
• Camp, C. T., 'Inventing the Past in Henry Bradshaw's Life of St Werburge', Exemplaria 23 (2011), 244-67
• Haslam, J., 'King Alfred, Mercia and London, 874-86: A Reassessment', Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 17, ed. H. Hamerow (Oxford, 2011), pp. 124-50
• Wood, I., 'The Continental Connections of Anglo-Saxon Courts from Aethelberht to Offa', Le Relazioni internazionali nell'alto Medioevo. Spoleto, 8-12 aprile 2010, Settimane di studio della Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo 58 (Spoleto, 2011), 443-77
• Insley, C., 'The Family of Wulfric Spott: An Anglo-Saxon Marcher Dynasty?', The English and Their Legacy, 900-1200: Essays in Honour of Ann Williams, ed. D. Roffe (Woodbridge, 2012), pp. 115-28
• Hare, M., 'Deerhurst’s Earliest Patrons: Æthelmund and Æthelric', Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 130 (2012), 151–82
• Hare, M., ' Anglo-Saxon Berkeley: History and Topography ' , Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 18, ed. H. Hamerow (2012), 119–56
• Tinti, F., 'The Reuse of Charters at Worcester between the Eighth and the Eleventh Century: A Case Study', Midland History 37 (2012), 127-41
• Waddington, S. K., 'The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Herefordshire: A Study in Land-Unit Antiquity' (PhD diss., University of Birmingham, 2013)
• Capper, M., 'Titles and Troubles: Conceptions of Mercian Royal Authority in Eighth- and Ninth-Century Charters', Problems and Possibilities of Early Medieval Charters, ed. J. Jarrett and A. S. McKinley, International Medieval Research 19 (Turnhout, 2013), pp. 209-29
• Capper, M., 'Prelates and Politics: Wilfrid', Oundle and the 'Middle Angles', St Wilfrid: Bishop of York, Abbot of Ripon and Hexham, ed. N. J. Higham and R. A. Hall (Donington, 2013) , pp. 260-74
• Coates, R., 'The Name of the Hwicce: A Discussion', Anglo-Saxon England 42 (2013), 51-61
• Wood, M., 'Searching for Brunanburh: The Yorkshire Context of the “Great War” of 937', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 85 (2013), 138-59
• Stein, S., 'Understanding Torksey, Lincolnshire: A Geoarchaeological and Landscape Approach to a Viking Overwintering Camp (PhD diss., University of Sheffield, 2014)
• Keynes, S., ‘Alfred the Great and the Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons’, A Companion to Alfred the Great, ed. N. G. Discenza and P. E. Szarmach, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition 58 (Leiden, 2015), pp. 13-46
• Snook, B.,The Anglo-Saxon Chancery: The History, Language and Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters from Alfred to Edgar, Anglo-Saxon Studies 28 (Woodbridge, 2015)
• Bassett, S., ‘Offa, King of the East Saxons, and his West Midland Land Grants’, Midland History 40 (2015), 1-23
• Scharer, A., 'Ein imperator-Titel vor 800. Zu den Urkunden König Coenwulfs von Mercien', Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung 123 (2015), 109-16

• Yorke, B., Mercia and Wessex c. 800: Connections and Comparisons, 2015, https://www.academia.edu/42392362/Brixworth_Lecture_2015_Mercia_and_Wessex_c_800_Connections_and_Comparisons_1

• Ray, K. and I. Bapty, Offa's Dyke: Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain (Oxford, 2016)

• Hill, D., and M. Worthington, ed., Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016)
• Hunt, J., Warriors, Warlords and Saints: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia (Alcester, 2016)
• Keynes, S., 'The Kingdom of the Mercians in the Eighth Century', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016), pp. 1-26
• Tyler, D. J., 'Orchestrated Violence and the 'Supremacy of the Mercian Kings', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016), pp. 27-34
• Woolf, A., 'Onuist Son of Uurguist', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016), pp. 35-42
• Yorke, B., 'Æthelbald, Offa and the Patronage of Nunneries', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016), pp. 43-8
• Martin, R., 'The Lives of the Offas: The Posthumous Reputation of Offa, King of the Mercians', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016), pp. 49-54
• Matthews, S., 'Legends of Offa: The Journey to Rome', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016), pp. 55-8
• Sharp, S., 'Æthelbert, King and Martyr: The Development of a Legend', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016), pp. 59-64
• Sargent, A., 'A Misplaced Miracle: The Origins of St Modwynn of Burton and St Eadgyth of Polesworth', Midland History 41 (2016), 1-19
• Williams, G., 'Military Obligations and Mercian Supremacy in the Eighth Century', Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia, ed. D. Hill and M. Worthington, British Archaeological Reports British Series 383 (Oxford, 2016), pp. 103-10
• Dunshea, P., 'The Road to Winwæd? Penda's Wars against Oswiu of Bernicia, c. 642 to c. 655', Anglo-Saxon England 44 (2016 for 2015), 1-16
• Stone, D. J. F., 'Mutually Assure Construction:Æthelflæd's Burhs, Landscapes of Defence and the Physical Legacy of the Unificatio of England, 899-1016' (PhD diss., University of Exeter, 2017)
• Brady, L., Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester, 2017)
• Blake, M. K., 'Stories from the Edge: Creating an Identity in Early Medieval North-West Staffordshire' (PhD diss., University of Leicester, 2017)
• Tompkins, 'A., 'The Avon Valley in the Fifth to Mid-Seventh Centuries: Contacts and Coalescence in a Frontier Polity?' (DPhil diss., University of Oxford, 2017)
• Burford, Z., 'After Oswald: Cults and Community among the Benedictine Monasteries of Eleventh-Century Mercia' (PhD diss., University of York, 2018)
• Bassett, S., ‘A Lost Late Seventh-Century Charter concerning Hanbury (Worcs.)’, Transactions of the Worcestershire Archaeological Society, 3rd series, 26 (2018), 107-11
• Blake, M. and A. Sargent, 'For the Protection of all the People: Æthelflæd and her Burhs in Northwest Mercia', Midland History 43 (2018), 120-54
• Nelson, J. L., 'Losing the Plot? “Filthy assertions” and “unheard-of deceit” in Codex Carolinus 92', Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. R. Naismith and D. A. Woodman (Cambridge, 2018), pp. 122-36
• Whitehead, A., Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (Stroud, 2018)
• Clarkson, T., Æthelflæd: The Lady of the Mercians (Edinburgh, 2018)
• Gallagher, R., 'The Vernacular in Anglo-Saxon Charters: Expansion and Innovation in Ninth-Century England', Historical Research 91 (2018), 205-35
• Blair, J., Building Anglo-Saxon England (Princeton, 2018) [pp. 106-7 and 179-231]
• Uchikawa, Y., 'Core and Periphery in Anglo-Saxon England: The Mercian Assemblies in the Kingdom of the Anglo-Saxons and the Formation of the English Kingdom', East Asian Journal of British History 7 (2019), 83-104
• Gallagher, R. and F. Tinti, 'Latin, Old English and Documentary Practice at Worcester from Waerferth to Oswald', Anglo-Saxon England 49 (2019), 271-325
• Yorke, B., Æthelred, Lord of the Mercians and his Deerhurst Connections, Deerhurst Lecture 2019 (Deerhurst, 2019)
• Bassett, S., 'The Role of Mercian Kings in the Founding of Minsters in the Kingdom of the Hwicce', 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. 373-86
• Roberts J. and A. Thacker, ed., Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, (Donington, 2020)
• Capper, M., 'St Guthlac and the 'Britons': A Mercian Context', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 180-213
• Thacker, A., 'Guthlac and his Life: Felix Shapes the Saint', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 1-24
• Kilpatrick, K., 'Places, Landscapes and Borders in the Vita S. Guthlaci', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 97-115
• Leeser, S., 'On the Edge and in the Middle: The Dynastic and Territorial Context of St Guthlac's Early Cult', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), 138-56
• Grossi, J., 'Felix and his Kings', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 157-79
• Heslop, T. A., 'The Conventual Seals of Crowland Abbey', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 274-76
• Parkes, H., 'Musical Portraits of St Guthlac', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 277-97
• Alexander, J., 'Crowland Abbey Church and St Guthlac', Guthlac: Crowland's Saint, ed. J. Roberts and A. Thacker (Donington, 2020), pp. 298-315
• Sargent, A., Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating Community in Early Medieval Mercia (Hatfield, 2020)
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