Blogs about: King Ecgfrith
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Ecgfrith's Heir
During a fall when I’ve been too busy for blogging, I got a great medieval surprise in my snail mailbox. For the first time I can remember the Jarrow Lecture has been published in the year it wa… more →
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Ecgfrith's Heir
Michelle wrote 1 month ago: During a fall when I’ve been too busy for blogging, I got a great medieval surprise in my snai … more →
Berht of Dunbar?
Michelle wrote 11 months ago: Dunbar fortress at its height c.1400 before it was intentionally dismantled. Painting of Dunbar cast … more →
Bernicia from the South
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Michelle wrote 12 months ago: What I would like to explore today is the hypothesis that the early Bernicians were viewed as outsid … more →
LKM: Bernicia/Bryneich
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Bamburgh from the BBC Bernicia or Bryneich? We know that the name of the kingdom was British and the … more →
Ecgfrith's Burial
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: St Oran's Chapel and the earliest cemetery of Iona I was reading more of Clarkson’s The Pi … more →
PW: Queen Cynewise of Mercia
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Queen Cynewise is one of the few early Mercian queens that we have any information on at all. The on … more →
LKM: Deira
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: Its not too difficult to do little known kingdoms. Its possible to seem comprehensive when you don … more →
PW: King Ecgfrith of Northumbria
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: On May 20th, 685 King Ecgfrith of Northumbria fell deep in Pictland at Dunnichen to King Bridei, who … more →
LKM: Lindsey
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: [Updated 27 March 2008] This month’s lost kingdom is Lindsey, which makes up most of what is c … more →
Sleepy King Ecgfrith
Michelle wrote 1 year ago: As Prof Cohen over at In the Middle is teaching Marie de France this week, I thought I would revisit … more →
PW: Bishop Aethelwald of Lindisfarne
Michelle wrote 1 year ago: The person of the week for this week is Bishop Æthelwald of Lindisfarne, one of the possible owners … more →
LKM: Craven
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Michelle wrote 1 year ago: This month’s lost kingdom is the British kingdom of Craven. It has been identified by placenam … more →
St Andrew's Appeal
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Michelle wrote 2 years ago: St Andrew’s appeal in Britain is one of those stories of meandering coincidences that are comm … more →
Early Memories of Audrey of Ely
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Michelle wrote 2 years ago: I’ve been reading Virginia Blanton’s Signs of Devotion (2007) and I find that I need to … more →
King Edwin's Sister's Son
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Michelle wrote 2 years ago: Thinking more about Willibrord’s devotion to St. Oswald and Oswald’s placement on Willib … more →
Bede and King Ecgfrith's Associates
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Michelle wrote 2 years ago: I was thinking yesterday about the phases of Bede’s career and his devotion to two local saint … more →
