Description
Book SynopsisProviding a dedicated venue for new research on the early medieval frontiers and borderlands of the island of Britain, the
Offa’s Dyke Journal (
ODJ)
is also the first and only open-access peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the investigation of frontiers and borderlands in deep-time perspective. The journal’s remit spans detailed and original explorations into landscapes, earthworks, monuments and material culture. Exploring specific themes and issues in the archaeology, history and heritage of frontiers and borderlands in comparative and global perspective,
ODJ is edited and produced under the auspices of the interdisciplinary research network, the Offa’s Dyke Collaboratory, and funded by the University of Chester and the Offa’s Dyke Association.
The contents of this special issue comprise the proceedings of a conference held over Zoom on the weekend of 11–12 July 2020.
Table of ContentsBorders in Early Medieval Britain: Introducing the Special Issue –
Ben Guy ;
The Fluidity of Borderlands –
Lindy Brady ;
Bige Habban: An Introduction to Money, Trade and Cross-Border Traffic –
Rory Naismith ;
Donation and Conquest: The Formation of Lothian and the Origins of the Anglo-Scottish Border –
Neil McGuigan ;
King Æthelstan and Cornwall –
Oliver Padel ;
The Changing Approaches of English Kings to Wales in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries –
Ben Guy ;
Place-names and Offa’s Dyke: The Limits of Inference –
David N. Parsons ;
The Organisation of the Mid–Late Anglo-Saxon Borderland with Wales –
Keith Ray ;
Shifting Border, Shifting Interpretation: what the Anglo-Norman Castle of Dodleston in Cheshire might be trying to tell us about the eleventh-century northern Anglo-Welsh Border –
Rachel E. Swallow
