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Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth-Century Kings of Mercia. Papers from a Conference held in Manchester in 2000. Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies

David Hill and Margaret Worthington 2005 © BAR Publishing
This volume presents 16 papers from the conference entitled "Æthelbald and Offa: Two Eighth Century Kings of Mercia" held in Manchester in 2000 at the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies.
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  • BAR British Series pre-2020
  • BAR pre-2020
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407320304 (ebook)
  • 9781841716879 (paperback)
BAR Number
  • B383
Subject
  • Conflict / Military / Fortifications
  • Christianity / Churches / Monastic
  • Epigraphy / Ancient and Medieval Texts / Papyri
  • British Isles
  • Migration Period, Early Medieval and Medieval
  • Landscape Archaeology
  • Numismatics
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  • Front Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Editor’s Note
  • Contributors
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • FIGURES AND MAPS
  • PLATE
  • The Kingdom of the Mercians in the Eighth Century
  • Orchestrated Violence and the ‘Supremacy of the Mercian Kings’
  • Onuist son of Uurguist: tyrannus carnifex or a David for the Picts?
  • Æthelbald, Offa and the Patronage of Nunneries
  • The Lives of the Offas: the Posthumous Reputation of Offa, King of the Mercians
  • Legends of Offa: the Journey to Rome
  • Æthelberht, King and Martyr: the Development of a Legend
  • Mentions of Offa in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf, and Widsith
  • Felix’s Life of Guthlac: history or hagiography?
  • Guthlac’s Vita, Mercia and East Anglia in the first half of the Eighth Century
  • Offa’s Dyke
  • The Eighth-Century Urban Landscape
  • Military Obligations and Mercian Supremacy in the Eighth Century
  • The Coinage of Offa in the light of Recent Discoveries
  • Beonna and Alberht: Coinage and Historical Context
  • Riches in Heaven and on Earth: Some Thoughts on the Iconography of Coinage at the time of Æthelbald
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