Podcasts History The British History Podcast 159 An Offa End

159 An Offa End

Published: April 9, 2015, 12:08 a.m.

Lets start with Christmas Day 795. That\u2019s the day Pope Hadrian died\u2026 so uh\u2026 Merry Christmas? Hadrian was actually a pretty decent Pope\u2026 not Pope Francis level of awesome, though really who is? But he was still pretty good, and upon hearing of his death, Charlemagne commissioned Alcuin to write a poem that was carved [\u2026]

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