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Monks, bishops and booty: ‘Marwnad Cynddylan’ and the Staffordshire Hoard

OUT OF LONDON ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE Monks, bishops and booty: ‘Marwnad Cynddylan’ and the Staffordshire Hoard Lecture by Dr Jenny Rowland (University College Dublin) The lament for Cynddylan, a seventh-century king of Powys, has long been comparatively neglected. Since I edited it many years ago there have been new editions and studies, but the […]

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Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship and the Earliest English Castles

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ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS LECTURE Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship and the Earliest English Castles Lecture by Dr Michael Shapland FSA It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is now becoming apparent that Anglo-Saxon lords had been constructing free-standing towers […]

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