Æthelbald and Offa – two eighth-century kings of Mercia.: Papers from a conference held in Manchester in 2000, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies

Pages:
138; pls (some colour); figs; many refs
Editors:
Margaret Worthington; David Hill
Publisher:
Archaeopress
Published:
2005
ISBN:
1 84171 687 1
URL/DOI:
http://www.archaeopress.com/defaultBar.asp
Abstract:
Volume presenting sixteen 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, exploring the political and social context of eighth-century Mercia, examining the lives and legends of Æthelbald and Offa and of their contemporaries, predecessors and successors, and reviewing the evidence from documentary sources, coinage and the archaeological record. Papers include Dodds, Damaris
Dataset:
BIAB
Classifications:
7A, 7D, 7C, 7G
Table of Contents
Title
The kingdom of the Mercians in the eighth century
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Simon Keynes
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Orchestrated violence and the 'supremacy of the Mercian kings
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Damian J Tyler
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Onuist son of Uurguist:: tyrannus carnifex or a David for the Picts?
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Alex Woolf
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Æthelbald, Offa and the patronage of nunneries
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Barbara Yorke
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
The lives of the Offas:: the posthumous reputation of Offa, King of the Mercians (Richard Martin);
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Richard Martin
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Legends of Offa:: the journey to Rome
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Stephen Matthews
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Æthelberht, king and martyr:: the development of a legend (Sheila Sharp);
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Sheila Sharp
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Mentions of Offa in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Beowulf and Widsith
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Mark Atherton
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Felix’s Life of Guthlac:: history or hagiography?
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Audrey L Meaney
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Guthlac’s Vita, Mercia and East Anglia in the first half of the eighth century
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: N J Higham
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Offa’s Dyke
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Margaret Worthington
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
The eighth-century urban landscape
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: David Hill
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Military obligations and Mercian supremacy in the eighth century
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Gareth Williams
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
The coinage of Offa in the light of recent discoveries
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Derek Chick
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Beonna and Alberht:: coinage and historical context
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Marion M Archibald
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
Riches in heaven and on earth:: some thoughts on the iconography of coinage at the time of Æthelbald
Type: Item in portmanteau
Publisher: Archaeopress
Authors: Anna Gannon
Source: British Archaeological Reports, 383
Year: 2005
Dataset: BIAB
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