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Midland Hist 30
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Midland Hist 30
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Series:
Midland History
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Volume:
30
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Journal
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Editor:
J Röhrkasten
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Publisher:
School of Historical Studies
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Year of Publication:
2005
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19 Apr 2006
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An early Mercian hegemony: Penda and overkingship in the seventh century
Damian Tyler
1 - 19
The author looks at the reign of Penda of Mercia, providing a consideration of the extent of his hegemony and a detailed analysis of the mechanisms sustaining it. It is argued that Penda's style of overkingship represented a flexible but essentially conservative reaction to the new strategies of power which Christian ideology and Christian churchmen were providing for other seventh-century kings.
`Most renowned of merchants': the life and occupations of Laurence of Ludlow (d....
Henry Summerson
20 - 36
The article looks at the historical references concerning the late-thirteenth-century merchant and landowner Laurence of Ludlow, with the aim of shedding light on him as an individual.
England's last medieval heresy hunt: Gloucestershire 1540
Alec Ryrie
37 - 52
Historical account of a brief campaign by the recently-appointed Bishop of Worcester against religious dissidents in Gloucestershire during 1540, recorded in a visitation book of the time.
Gender and `the condition of England' debate in the Birmingham writings of Charlotte Tonna and Harriet Martineau
Fiona Terry-Chandler
53 - 66
Discussion of the contribution made by two writers to the mid-nineteenth-century discussion on the role of working-class women in relation to employment, with specific reference to Birmingham.
The Shropshire magistracy and local imprisonment: networks of power in the nineteenth century
Helen Johnston
67 - 91
Article considering the social background and influence of county magistrates involved in the administration of the county prison in Shrewsbury, the importance of the prison to the local power elite in Shropshire, and the role of the `visiting justice', particularly in relation to the prison.
A dyer on the road to Saint James: an identity for `the Worcester Pilgrim'?
Katherine Lack
112 - 128
The paper provides a context for pilgrimage in the West Midlands at the time (between c. 1375 and 1540) of the pilgrim burial uncovered in the nave of Worcester Cathedral in 1987, and reassesses the information that can be gleaned from the burial and from the Worcester City archives concerning the possible identity of the individual concerned. Includes
Appendix
123 - 126
transcriptions and translations of the Testaments of Robert Dyer of the city of Worcester (dated 1454) and of Joan Sutton, otherwise Dyer, of Worcester (dated 1457)