A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons (64 page)

army, standing
229
,
298
,
311

Arthur, king
7–8

Ashdown, battle of
189
,
194

Assandun, battle of
296
,
309

Asser
58
,
101
,
174
,
186
,
188
,
193
,
194
,
206
,
207
,
209
,
210–12
,
215
,
223
,
226

Augustine, archbishop of Canterbury
8–9
,
32
,
33–6
,
37
,
43
,
123
,
135
,
138

Augustine of Hippo xxxviii,
5
,
221
,
222
,
246

Baldred, king of Kent
114
,
118
,
206

Baldwin II, Count of Flanders
274

Baldwin V, Count of Flanders
232
,
317
,
323
,
332

Balthidis, queen
40–1

Bamburgh
20
,
71–2
,
187
,
204

Bath xxvi,
18
,
105
,
277
,
289
,
303
,
304
,
305

Bayeux Tapestry
332
,
335
,
354–60

Becket, Thomas
352

Bede
xxxv–xli
,
4–11
,
62
,
161–2
,
238
,
244
,
254
,
353
and
passim

Benedict III, Pope
207

Benedict Biscop
47
,
62
,
75
,
77–8
,
79
,
86
,
91
,
152

Benedict, Rule of St
139
,
155
,
280–1

Benty Grange
26

Beorhtric, king of Wessex
58
,
102
,
158
,
181
,
185

Beorhtwulf, king of Mercia
118
,
185

Beornred, abbot of Echternach and archbishop of Sens
151

Beornwulf, king of Mercia
101
,
117
,
118

Beowulf
xxxi
,
xli
,
1
,
24–6
,
101
,
151
,
234
,
235
,
240
,
249
and
passim

Bernicia
20
,
23–4
,
32
,
60
,
62
,
67
,
72
,
73
,
204

Bertha of Paris
32
,
33
,
35
,
48

Bewcastle
87–8

Birinus
44
,
70
,
253

Biscop Baducing
see
Benedict Biscop

Boethius
210
,
221

Boniface, archbishop of Mainz
see
Wynfrith

Book of Kells
68

Brand, abbot of Peterborough
248
,
341
,
342

bretwalda
xliii
,
26
,
97
,
99
,
185
,
278

Britain

origin of name
2–3
,
9

original inhabitants
xxxiii–xxxiv
,
3
,
9

Brixworth, All Saints
110–11

Brunanburh, battle of
10
,
200
,
235
,
244
,
270
,
275

building, Anglo-Saxon
110–11
,
117
,
218
,
227–8

Burchard, bishop of Würzburg
136

Burgred, king of Mercia
117
,
118
,
185
,
188
,
195
,
206
,
215

burhs
218
,
226–8
,
230
,
265–6
,
298

Byrthnoth, ealdorman
193–4
,
293
,
296

Cadwallon, king of Gwynedd
67

Caedmon
238
,
242

Cædwalla, king of Wessex
40
,
49–50
,
57

calligraphy, Anglo-Saxon
89–91
,
148–9
,
173
,
176
,
177
,
221
,
250
,
313

Canterbury
13
,
35
,
36
,
37
,
38
,
43–8

Capet, Hugh
272

Carloman
135–6
,
153
,
154

Carmen de Hastinge Proelio
338
,
339

Carolingian dynasty
61
,
127
,
135
,
136–7
,
148
,
153
,
209
,
217
,
233

carvings, Anglo-Saxon
86–9

Ceawlin
17–18
,
34

Cedd, bishop
74
,
80
,
278

Cenwalh, king of Wessex
49
,
95

Ceolfrith, abbot
76
,
78
,
91

ceorls
42–3
,
75
,
297

Ceolwulf, king of Northumbria
84

Ceolwulf II, king of Mercia
117
,
118
,
191
,
215
,
225

Cerdic
12
,
16–17
,
53
,
57
,
205