IMC 2026: Sessions

Session 1302: Mercian Studies, IV: Bishops, Kings, and Coins

Sponsor:	Mercian Network
Organiser:	Christine Rauer, School of English, University of St Andrews
Moderator/Chair:	Alex Woolf, School of History, University of St Andrews
Paper 1302-a	Wilfrid: Bishop of the Middle Angles? (Language: English) Thomas Vare, School of History, Politics & International Relations, University of Leicester Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Historiography - Medieval, Monasticism
Paper 1302-b	Means, Motives, and Opportunities: The Execution of Æthelberht II of East Anglia Revisited (Language: English) Rory Naismith, Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic, University of Cambridge Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Hagiography, Historiography - Medieval, Politics and Diplomacy
Paper 1302-c	Bishops and Money in Pre-Viking Mercia (Language: English) Rose Varley, Department of Classics & Archaeology, University of Nottingham Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Ecclesiastical History, Numismatics, Politics and Diplomacy
Abstract	The various roles played by Mercian bishops and kings will be at the centre of this session, shedding new light on some more unusual practices which seem to push conventional boundaries. How was such behaviour perceived by outside commentators and in later times?