Medievalists.net » Stigand http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Tue, 08 Dec 2015 00:51:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Role of Bishops in Anglo-Saxon Succession Struggles, 955 x 978 http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/31/the-role-of-bishops-in-anglo-saxon-succession-struggles-955-x-978/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/31/the-role-of-bishops-in-anglo-saxon-succession-struggles-955-x-978/#comments Fri, 31 Jan 2014 21:15:59 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47173 With these words the anonymous author of the Vita Sancti Oswaldi, now believed to be Byrhtferth of Ramsey, depicts the situation after the death of King Edgar in 975.

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