Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.

• Front Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Editors’ Preface
• List of Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• List of Tables
• 1. Communities, Authority and Power in Winchester, c. 800–c. 1200
• 2. Capital Considerations: Winchester and the Birth of Urban Archaeology
• 3. The King’s Stone: Peace, Power and the Highway in Early Medieval Winchester
• 4. Royal Burial in Winchester: Context and Significance
• 5. Constructing Early Medieval Winchester: Historical Narratives and the Compilation of British Library Cotton MS Otho B.XI
• 6. Winchester, Æthelings and Clitones: The Political Significance of the City for Anglo-Saxon Aristocracy and Norman Nobility
• 7. The Execution of Earl Waltheof: Public Space and Royal Authority at the Edge of Eleventh-Century Winchester
• 8. The Queen, the Countess and the Conflict: Winchester 1141
• 9. Lantfred and Local Life at Winchester in the 960s and 970s
• 10. Wælcyrian in the Water Meadows: Lantfred’s Furies
• 11. SK27, Or a Winchester Pilgrim’s Tale
• 12. The Early Jewish Community in Twelfth-Century Winchester: An Interdisciplinary View
• 13. Henry of Blois and an Archbishopric of Winchester: Medieval Rationale and Anglo-Saxon Sources
• 14. Swithun in the North: A Winchester Saint in Norway