The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959: New Interpretations (Anglo-Saxon Studies, 48) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783277645 ISBN 13: 9781783277643

Publisher: Boydell Press, 2024

Synopsis

Essays highlighting the importance of three kings - Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig - in understanding England in the tenth century.

Much scholarly attention has been devoted to both the expanding kingdom of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, and Æthelstan, and to the larger and integrated realm of their more distant successors, Edgar and Æthelred II. However, the English kingdom in the 940s and 950s, and its three kings, Edmund (939-946), Eadred (946-955), and Eadwig (955-959), the men who inherited and held together the kingdom created by their immediate predecessors, have been somewhat neglected, with little research being dedicated to these men as kings, or the era in which they ruled.

This volume offers a variety of approaches to the period. Its contributors bring to light royal legal innovations to ecclesiastical law, oaths, heriot, complex factional politics, including the crucial role of queens, differing perspectives on the final era of an independent northern kingdom of York, and developments in literary culture outside the domineering trend of the later monastic reformers.

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About the Authors

MARY ELIZABETH BLANCHARD is an early medieval historian at Ave Maria University specializing in tenth- and eleventh-century England with specific focus on prosopography and activities of the secular and ecclesiastical elites.

CHRISTOPHER RIEDEL teaches medieval & ancient history at Albion College and is completing a biography on Æthelwold of Winchester.

GERALD P. DYSON is Assistant Professor of History at Kentucky Christian University.

Alison Hudson is an historian who works on tenth- and eleventh-century monks and manuscripts. She received her doctorate from Oxford University in 2014, and has since worked in Brussels, London, and Orlando.

Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783277645
• ISBN 13: 9781783277643
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 236
• Editor: Blanchard Dr Mary Elizabeth, Riedel Christopher