Publication Date
5-2009
Date of Final Oral Examination (Defense)
March 2009
Type of Culminating Activity
Thesis
Degree Title
Master of Arts in History
Department
History
Major Advisor
Charles Matson Odahl, Ph.D.
Advisor
Peter Buhler, Ph.D.
Advisor
Lisa McClain, Ph.D.
Abstract
Following the Easter celebrations of AD 664, Oswiu, the Northumbrian Breatwalda, called a mixed body of representatives from the Bernician and Deirian royal households and Roman and Irish Catholic ecclesiastical leaders to convene a church council at Whitby Abbey, on the mouth of the river Esk. His intent was simple: to put to rest a fiery dispute over the day upon which Christ’s resurrection was to be observed and bring peace to his household and to Northumbria. He entrusted the defense of his own church, the Irish, to his bishop, Colman of Lindisfarne. Agilbert, bishop of the West Saxons, was to defend the Roman Church, but the task fell, instead, to the Anglo-Saxon priest, Wilfrid.
Recommended Citation
Wadley, Karen I., "The King and His Council" (2009). Boise State University Theses and Dissertations. 14.
https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/td/14