Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42444-8 — Early Medieval Britain, c. 500–1000 Rory Naismith Index More Information Index Abercorn, West Lothian, 206, 304 Æthelgar, archbishop of Canterbury, region of eastern Scotland, 239 Aberdaron, Gwynedd, 183, 184 342 relations with England, 241 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, 176 Æthelheard, archbishop of supremacy in North Britain, 240 Acca, bishop of Hexham, 205 Canterbury, 204 thane/toísech, 259 Adomnán of Iona, abbot, 65, 322, Æthelnoth, reeve, 409 Alcuin of York, 205, 207, 287, 288–9 345, 404 Æthelred I, king of the West Saxons, Aldfrith, king of the Northumbrians, De locis sanctis, 66–7 74 103, 206, 415 Life of St Columba, 47, 78, 119, 135, Æthelred II, king of the English, 30, 54, Aldhelm of Malmesbury, 49, 406 184, 320, 322–3, 331, 332 57, 109, 236, 260, 342, 380, 428 Aldred, scribe, 129–30 Adwick-le-Street, South Yorkshire, campaigns against vikings, 237–9 Aldwark, North Yorkshire, 139, 391, 121 coinage, 416 396 Æbbe, abbess and sister of King St Brice’s Day Massacre, 109–10 Alexander the Great, 123 Oswiu, 286 Æthelred, ealdorman of the Alexandria, Egypt, 66 Æcerbot, 298–9 Mercians, 232, 233, 270, 271, 398 Alfred jewel, 267, 411 Áedán mac Gabráin, king of Dál Æthelstan, king of the English, Alfred the Great, king of the West Riata, 175, 208 28–30, 31, 32, 36, 50, 72, 74, 87, Saxons and of the Anglo- Ælfgifu, wife of King Eadwig, 234, 229, 231, 233, 236, 241, 243, 247, Saxons, 27, 47, 52, 57, 58, 60, 74, 235 321, 329, 367 101, 112, 202, 222, 249, 262–72, Ælfric Bata, colloquy, 381, 388, 393 coinage, 236, 390 280, 332, 340, 398, 406, 411 Ælfric of Eynsham, 316, 319, 332, 333, legislation, 350–1 and Wales, 247 338, 381, 388, 404, 409, 422, 461 Old Norse praise poem, 413 educational initiatives, 264 biblical translation, 404, 415 Æthelstan, son of King Æthelred II, fortresses built by, 397 colloquy, 381, 394 380 law-code, 271 Ælfsige, bishop of the community of Æthelthryth, saint, 286, 314, 320 preface to the Pastoral Care, 264, St Cuthbert, 129 Æthelwald, bishop of Lindisfarne, 130 266 Ælfsige, father of Wulfstan Uccea, Æthelweard, ealdorman and rule beyond Wessex, 232 342 chronicler, 51, 72–5, 77, 141, translations, 264–6 Ælthryth, daughter of Æthelwulf, 74 404, 418 warfare, 263 Ælthryth, wife of King Edgar, 343 Æthelweard, thegn, 367, 369 will, 261 Ælfwald, king of the East Angles, 198 Æthelwold, saint, 235, 313, 325, 342, Alfred, ealdorman, 55 Ælfweard, litigant, 339 380–1 Alla, son of Cynilig, 246 Ælfwold the Fat, landholder, 380–1 Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, al-Mansur, caliph, 67 Ælla, king of Deira, 102 72, 74 Ammanford, Carmarthernshire, 365 Ælle, king of the South Saxons, 202 Æthelwulf/Adelolph, count of Aneirin, poet, 170 Aeneas, 24 Boulogne, 74 Angles, 10, 105, 111, 112, 158, 165, 232 æstel, 267 Aëtius, Roman general, 182 Anglesey, 32, 173, 424 Æthelbald, king of the Mercians, 27, Africa, 60 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 28, 47, 56, 196, 198–200, 212, 261, 397 African Red Slip Ware, 68 58, 79, 97, 98, 101, 106, 109, 120, Æthelberht, king of Kent, 172, 185, agriculture, 356, 425, 427 133, 202, 204, 225, 229, 232, 241, 187, 202, 261, 271 Aidan, saint, 83, 309 242, 263, 270, 271, 296, 416, 422 law-code, 410 Alba, kingdom of, 9–10, 27, 28, 34, Anglo-Saxons, 36, 43, 87, 170 Æthellæd, lady of the Mercians, 233, 60, 225, 230, 239–44, 304, 331, early kingdoms, 167 247, 271, 340, 398 423, 425, 426 in Gildas, 19–20 Æthelfrith, king of the earl/mormaer, 259 kingdom of the, 232, 262, 270 Northumbrians, 176 government, 259–60 material culture, 108 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42444-8 — Early Medieval Britain, c. 500–1000 Rory Naismith Index More Information index 465 migration and settlement, 105–11, concept of history, 76 Bradford on Avon, Gloucestershire, 156–9 conversion of the English, 184–7, 183 missions to mainland Europe, 63–5 275–6 Bramdean, Hampshire, 362 terminology, 13, 111–17, 157 Ecclesiastical History of the English Breccán, merchant, 394 Annales Cambriae, 244 People, 18, 27, 47, 65, 76–7, 78, Brecon, 246 Annals of Tigernach, 117 80–5, 97, 105, 107, 133, 165, Bredei son of Beli, king of Fortriu, Annals of Ulster, 225 184–7, 205, 265, 275, 296, 311, 208 Anthony, saint, 322 332, 401 Brega, Ireland, 45 anthropology, 138, 282–3 false monasteries, 311 Bretwalda, 202 Antonine Wall, 18, 19, 44, 149, 179, Letter to Ecgberht, 287, 304, 311, Brian Boru, high king of Ireland, 123 184 383 Brigid, saint, 416 apocalypse, 85 Life of St Cuthbert, 134, 276, 309 Brinsworth, South Yorkshire, 32 Aquitaine, 118 treatment of Britons, 181 British Library, 128, 132, 135 archaeology, 135–40 Bedford, Bedfordshire, 227, 397 British Museum, 135 architecture, 424 beggars, 332 Britons, 19, 35, 85, 100, 107, 160, 165, Arculf, Frankish bishop, 65 Benedict Biscop, abbot, 81, 310 172, 181, 275, 330 Argyll, 35, 141, 240 Benedict, saint, 310 History of the Kings of Britain, 85–9 Armagh, Northern Ireland, 49 monastic rule, 310, 312, 313, 381 origin legend, 23 Armes Prydein, 32–4, 244, 249 Beorhthelm, 246 Brittany, France, 32, 100, 355 Armorica, 24, 100 Beorhtmær of Bourne, 341 Brixworth, Northamptonshire, 308 Arthur, legendary king, 86, 88, 89 Beorhtric, king of the West Saxons, Bromborough, Cheshire, 32 Arthurian literature, 89 51, 201, 214 brooches Ashley, Wiltshire, 361 Beorhtwulf, 246 early English, 157 Asser, bishop of Sherborne, 27, 34, Beowulf, 52, 89–92, 106, 133, 257, 289, Scandinavian, 121 112, 202, 264, 265, 270, 303, 290, 327–8, 344, 384, 414 Brown, Basil, 136 313, 404 Brunanburh, battle of, 31–2, 50, 106, religion in, 283, 285–91 Athanasius of Alexandria, 322 229 Bernicia, 107, 167, 169, 231 Athelney, Somerset, 267 Brutus, son of Aeneas, 85, 97 Bertha, wife of King Æthelberht, 187 Atholl, kingdom of, 176, 208 Brycheiniog, kingdom of, 247, 373 Bible, 39, 82, 104, 181, 256, 274, 287, Attacotti, 160 Buckingham Palace, 367 322, 402, 404 Augustine, saint Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, 28 Bibliothéque Nationale de France, 135 Soliloquies (Old English), 265, 269 Buckinghamshire, 380 Biguan, 246 Augustus, emperor, 123 Budat, 246 Billfrith, anchorite, 130 bullion, 150, 226, 246 Badon Hill, battle of, 182 Binchester, County Durham, 318 bullion economy, 390–3 bædling, 346 bishops, 302–6 Burgh Castle, Norfolk, 47 Baithéne, monk, 78 Black Death, 356 Burghead, Moray, 169, 373 Baltic Sea, 52, 222 Blathmac, saint, 54 burials, 52, 110, 188–9, 316 Bamburgh, earldom of, 127, 219, 231, Blegwyrt, son of Eineon, 246 as relection of conversion, 291–4 241, 249, 402, 423 Bloodmoor Hill, Norfolk, 211 grave goods, 294 Bamburgh, Northumberland, 106, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, 360 princely, 174 169 Boethius viking, 227 Barking, Greater London, 82, 286, Consolation of Philosophy (Old Welsh, 294 314 English), 265–6, 412 Burnswark, Dumfries and Galloway, Bath, Somerset, 87, 358 Boniface, saint, 63, 65, 105, 280, 281, 32 Battersea, Greater London, 360 384, 406 Burrian, Orkney, 178 Battle of Maldon, he, 92, 133, 290 Book of Kells, 307 Byrhtferth of Ramsey, 57 Bayeux Tapestry, 79–80 Book of Llandaf, 168, 363, 384 Byrhtnoth, abbot, 380 Beacons Down, Vale of Glamorgan, bookland, 261 Byrhtnoth, ealdorman, 80, 237 361, 364, 369 books, 128–35 Byzantine Empire, 65 Beaduheard, 51, 212 editing, 133–4 contact with Britain, 67–8 Bede, 8, 18, 41, 42, 45, 46, 60, 63, 66, boroughs, 263, 397–9 87, 112, 118, 173, 199, 202, 206, Bosham, West Sussex, 47 Cadbury Castle, Somerset, 169 233, 278, 280, 315, 317, 356, 396, Botcherby, Cumbria, 419 Cadog, saint, 338 402, 404, 410 Bourne, Kent, 342 Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon, king of concept of Britain, 22–7 Bowyer, Robert, 132 Gwynedd, 34 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-42444-8 — Early Medieval Britain, c. 500–1000 Rory Naismith Index More Information 466 index Cadwallon ap Cadfan, king of charters, 28, 100, 109, 127, 168, 198, Codex Amiatinus, 39–41, 59 Gwynedd, 109, 172, 173 200, 214, 232, 233, 236, 258, 261, Codex Aureus, 55 Cædwalla, king of the Gewisse/West 270, 271, 329, 345, 346, 354, 358, Coenwulf, king of the Mercians, 196, Saxons, 86, 109 382, 383, 386, 393, 409 200, 201, 205 Caer Gai, Gwynedd, 277 boundary clauses, 360–70, 409 Coii, pagan priest, 186, 295 Caesar, Julius, 21, 43 involving women, 341–4 Coinage, see Money Caithness, 141, 227 Latinity, 404 Colbert, Jean-Baptiste, 135 Calpornius, father of St Patrick, 154 Cheddar, Somerset, 374 Colchester, Essex, 28 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, 50, 139, Chedworth, Gloucestershire, 152, 183 Coldingham, Berwickshire, 286, 314 227, 350 Chelsea, Middlesex, 204 Colgu, scholar, 48 Cambridgeshire, 32, 169 Chertsey, Surrey, 198, 286 colloquies, 338, 381, 388, 393, 394, Camden, William, 112 Chester, Cheshire, 50, 386 408 Campbell, Ewan, 119 Chester-le-Street, County Durham, Colosseum, 54 Canterbury, Kent, 49, 127, 185, 304, 129, 130, 131, 321 Columba, saint, 47, 78, 184, 208, 209, 332, 386, 397 Cheviots, 360 278, 280, 320, 345 archbishopric of, 26, 204, 306, Chippenham, Cambridgeshire, 380 other names, 321 349, 390 Chippenham, Wiltshire, 249, 263 Columbanus, saint, 47, 309 cathedral, 55, 131 chrism, 317 Comanche Empire, 228 St Augustine’s abbey, 374 Christianity, 1, 59, 81, 101, 108, 111, commerce, 379–81 Cantii, 167 160, 183–9, 236, 274–5, 404, 427 Conall mac Comgaill, king of Dál Cantiori, kinsman of Maglus, 101 almsgiving, 236, 385 Riata, 322 cantrei, 101, 168, 357, 375 and literacy, 407 Conmarch, maker of the Pillar of Cardif, South Glamorgan, 426 anthropology of, 282–3 Eliseg inscription, 92 Carham, battle of,