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ISBN 10: 1846156300

ISBN 13: 9781846156304

Author:  Donald Scragg 

Edgar, King of the English, 959-975: New Interpretations 1st Edition: Fresh assessments of Edgar’s reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence.

King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as “the Pacific” or”the Peaceable” because his reign was free from external attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a period of major social and economic change: early in his rule the growth of monastic power and wealth involved redistribution of much of the country’s assets, while the end of his reign saw the creation of England’s first national coinage, with firm fiscal control from the centre. He fulfilled King Alfred’s dream of the West Saxon royalhouse ruling the whole of England, and, like his uncle King Æthelstan, he maintained overlordship of the whole of Britain.
Despite his considerable achievements, however, Edgar has been neglected by scholars, partly becausehis reign has been thought to have passed with little incident. A time for a full reassessment of his achievement is therefore long overdue, which the essays in this volume provide.

 

Edgar, King of the English, 959-975: New Interpretations 1st Edition Table of contents:

I. Documentary Evidence

• Chapter 1: Edgar, Rex Admirabilis
• Chapter 2: A Conspectus of the Charters of King Edgar, 957–75

II. Edgar before 959

• Chapter 3: Eadwig and Edgar: Politics, Propaganda, Faction
• Chapter 4: Edgar, Chester, and the Kingdom of the Mercians, 957–9
• Chapter 5: Edgar’s Path to the Throne

III. Edgar, 959–975

• Chapter 6: The Women in Edgar’s Life
• Chapter 7: Edgar, Albion, and Insular Dominion
• Chapter 8: King Edgar and the Men of the Danelaw
• Chapter 9: The Pre-Reform Coinage of Edgar

IV. Edgar and the Monastic Revival

• Chapter 10: The Chronology of the Benedictine ‘Reform’
• Chapter 11: The Frontispiece to the New Minster Charter and the King’s Two Bodies
• Chapter 12: The Laity and the Monastic Reform in the Reign of Edgar
• Chapter 13: The Edgar Panegyrics in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

 

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