Abstract
IAN WOOD, ‘Monasteries and the Geography of Power in the Age of Bede’. Northumbria is usually thought to have been divided into two geographical regions, Deira and Bernicia. This article questions whether the division was really territorial or whether it was connected rather with the memorialisation of members of the ruling dynasties, which can be detected in monastic foundations, above all in the Vale of Pickering and on the Lower Tyne. These foundations both suggest that there was some distinction between northern and southern Northumbria, and at the same time illustrate the blurring of those distinctions in the course of the seventh and eighth centuries, with Deirans being remembered on the Tyne, and Bernicians in Ryedale.
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