Northumbria, 500-1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom

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 identity in pre-Viking Northumbria 5. The framework of power: government, aristocracy and the church Part III. The Destruction of Northumbria: 6. The Northumbrian 'successor states' - (a) The fragmentation of Northumbria, 866/7-c. 1100 (b) The Viking kingdom of York: political transformation? (c) The Viking kingdom of York: ethnic transformation? (d) The Viking kingdom of York: cultural transformation? (e) North of the river Tees: the 'liberty' of the community of St Cuthbert and the earls of Bamburgh (f) Cumbria 7. The English and Scottish impact: partition and absorption of the Northumbrian 'sucessor states' - (a) The west Saxon kings and the kings of England (b) The kings of Scots and the origins of the Scottish border (c) The Norman kings of England (d) The shadow of the past References Index.