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to one 'Speratus'; the letter includes Alcuin's most famous injunction: 'verba Dei legantur in sacerdotali convivio: ibi decet lectorem audiri, non citharistam, sermones patrum, non carmina gentilium. Quid
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cum Christo?' ('Let God's words be read at the episcopal dinner-table. It is right that a reader should be heard, not a harpist, patristic discourse, not pagan song. What has
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royal charters twenty times between 785 and around 800. Unwona's name is rare or even unique among Anglo-Saxon names, and seems to derive from Old English
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Unwona was consecrated between 781 and 785. He died between 801 and 803.
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Unwona appears as a witness to records of ecclesiastical councils and
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Donald A. Bullough, 'What has Ingeld to do with Lindisfarne?',
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Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1996).
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Index

Bishop of Leicester
Eadbeorht
Wernbeorht
Bishop of Leicester
Mercian
Alcuin of York
Hinieldus
Hinield
doi
10.1017/S0263675100004336
ISBN
0-521-56350-X
Unwona 2
Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
Christian titles
Eadbeorht
Bishop of Leicester
Wernbeorht
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Bishops of Lincoln
Cuthwine
Wilfrid
Headda
Aldwine
Torhthelm
Eadbeorht
Unwona
Wernbeorht

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