A not-especially-plausible defence of the 'Dark Ages' for your reading pleasure :)https://twitter.com/Pseudo_Isidore/status/737551724697681921 …
He has some fascinating bits: cited some in these two blogs :) http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/anglo-saxon-finds-france-africa.html … & http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/04/heptarchy-harun-ibn-yahya.html …
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very interesting. Im still of the opinion tho that the Heptarchy owes most to the Biblical 7 than any reality
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what of Elmet of Lindsey not to mention the Wealhs kingdoms+if Augustine able to discuss w/other local bishops
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well, suspect heptarchy is a product of Mercian supremacy, perhaps, forned as idea after loss of Lindsey etc?
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from Offa days or earlier Wulfhere&brother?
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