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Edgar, King of the English, 959-75

Author : Peter Rex
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Edgar, King of the English, 959-75 written by Peter Rex and published by Tempus Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgar, youngest son of King Edmund of Wessex, became ruler of a united England in 959. Although he became known as Edgar "the Peaceable," he ruled his country with an iron fist. His strict government was backed by military forces which deterred invasion by the Vikings. No such invading occurred from the time Eric Bloodaxe left York in 954 until 980, five years after Edgar's death. In this detailed account, Peter Rex follows his reign, during which he introduced the first form of national taxation, married at least twice, and fathered Edward the Martyr and Ethelred II, "the Unready."

Edgar, King of the English, 959-975

Author : Donald Scragg
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839288
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 written by Donald Scragg and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. CONTRIBUTORS: SIMON KEYNES, SHASHI JAYAKUMAR, C.P. LEWIS, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, BARBARA YORKE, JULIA CRICK, LESLEY ABRAMS, HUGH PAGAN, JULIA BARROW, CATHERINE KARKOV, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, MERCEDES SALVADOR-BELLO

Edgar, King of the English, 959-975

Author : D. G. Scragg
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843833999
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 written by D. G. Scragg and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence.

Places of Contested Power

Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783273739
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Places of Contested Power written by Ryan Lavelle and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full examination of why and how certain locations were chosen for opposition to power, and the meaning they conveyed.

Æthelred

Author : Levi Roach
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300225202
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Æthelred written by Levi Roach and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: divAn imaginative reassessment of Æthelred "the Unready," one of medieval England’s most maligned kings and a major Anglo-Saxon figure The Anglo-Saxon king Æthelred "the Unready" (978–1016) has

Ruling England, 1042-1217

Author : Richard Huscroft
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317867645
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Ruling England, 1042-1217 written by Richard Huscroft and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new history of post-conquest England which makes the new kingdom accessible through a focus on its kings and how it was ruled, featuring the empire building dynasties. The central theme of the book is the rise and fall of English kingship during this period and at its heart is the central question of how the ruler of the most sophisticated kingdom in 12th century Europe was eventually compelled to submit to the humiliation of Magna Carta at the start of the thirteenth. The book also reaffirms the importance of high politics in English history. No proper understanding of the wider aspects of medieval history (social, economic, cultural) is possible without a firm grounding in political events, and this book covers these themes in depth.

The Oxford Companion to British History

Author : John Cannon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199677832
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to British History written by John Cannon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In over 4,500 entries, this Companion covers all aspects of the history of Britain from 55 BC to the present day. Completely revised and updated, this is the go-to reference work for students and teachers of British history, as well as for anyone with an interest in the subject.

Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107160979
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England written by Rory Naismith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of linguistic, historical, legal, diplomatic and palaeographical evidence.

The Anglo-Saxon Chancery

Author : Ben Snook
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1783270063
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon Chancery written by Ben Snook and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Anglo-Saxon charters, bringing out their complexity and highlighting a range of broad implications.

Making Money in the Early Middle Ages

Author : Rory Naismith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691249334
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Making Money in the Early Middle Ages written by Rory Naismith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe Between the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the majority of the population to make use of. And yet, as Rory Naismith shows in this illuminating study, coined money was made and used throughout early medieval Europe. It was, he argues, a powerful tool for articulating people’s place in economic and social structures and an important gauge for levels of economic complexity. Working from the premise that using coined money carried special significance when there was less of it around, Naismith uses detailed case studies from the Mediterranean and northern Europe to propose a new reading of early medieval money as a point of contact between economic, social, and institutional history. Naismith examines structural issues, including the mining and circulation of metal and the use of bullion and other commodities as money, and then offers a chronological account of monetary development, discussing the post-Roman period of gold coinage, the rise of the silver penny in the seventh century and the reconfiguration of elite power in relation to coinage in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In the process, he counters the conventional view of early medieval currency as the domain only of elite gift-givers and intrepid long-distance traders. Even when there were few coins in circulation, Naismith argues, the ways they were used—to give gifts, to pay rents, to spend at markets—have much to tell us.

Athelred the Unready

Author : Ann Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852853822
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Athelred the Unready written by Ann Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Æthelred became king of England in 978, following the murder of his brother Edward the Martyr (possibly at the instigation of their mother) at Corfe. On his own death in April 1016, his son Edmund Ironside succeeded him and fought the invading Danes bravely, but died in November of the same year after being defeated at the battle of Assandun, leading to the House of Wessex being replaced by a Danish king, Cnut. Æthelred, in constrast to his predecessor and successor, reigned (except for a few months in 1013-14), largely unchallenged for thirty-eight years, despite presiding over a period which saw many Danish invasions and much internal strife. If not a great king, he was certainly a survivor whose posthumous reputation and nickname (meaning 'Noble Council the No Council') do him little justice. In Æthelred the Unready Ann Williams, a leading scholar on his reign, discounts the later rumours and misinterpretations that have dogged his reputation to construct a record of his reign from contemporary sources.

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings

Author : P. H. Sawyer
Publisher : Oxford Illustrated History
ISBN 13 : 9780192854346
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings written by P. H. Sawyer and published by Oxford Illustrated History. This book was released on 2001 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'the volume will indeed be a treasury for pictorial sources, and the illustrations to more off-the-beaten-track chapters (especially Noonan's, on European Russia) are correspondingly unusual.' -Guy Halsall, War in History, 8, 3, 2001'the truest picture yet of the Vikings and their age.' -Publishing News

Early Medieval Winchester

Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789256267
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Early Medieval Winchester written by Ryan Lavelle and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.

MS Junius 11 and Its Poetry

Author : Carl Kears
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1914049136
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book MS Junius 11 and Its Poetry written by Carl Kears and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh close reading of the texts of one of the four surviving major manuscripts of Old English poetry, reappraising Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Junius 11 to discover some of the preoccupations of its compliers. Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Junius 11 is one of the four major manuscripts of Old English poetry to survive and the only one of these to have had a planned sequence of illuminations. Junius 11 is made up of different poems - Genesis A, Genesis B, Exodus, Daniel and Christ and Satan - compiled to resemble a long narrative that represents salvation history from its violent origins to its Last Days. While the poems draw inspiration from biblical, apocryphal and commentary traditions, they combine in the manuscript to create powerful effects that can also be understood through an appreciation of the distinctive craft and complexity of early medieval vernacular verse. But can the language of the poetry within the manuscript tell us anything about the aims of the Junius 11 project, or the preoccupations of its compilers? This book approaches Junius 11 as an ambitious poetic endeavour that was designed to offer counsel through the medium of Old English verbal art. Tracing thematic language across and between the poems, and offering close readings of them in their manuscript context, MS Junius 11 and its Poetry argues that it is early medieval political ideas represented by the Old English words ræd (good counsel) and unræd (ill counsel) that emerge as the key components underlying the central conflicts of the history of humankind the makers of this manuscript sought to create. The poems themselves, by giving us many examples of rulers and leaders falling to ruin, have the potential to offer their own ræd to those who may have found themselves in relatable positions. But Junius 11 demands work for such gifts. Its poems generate impressions cumulatively and collectively, offering instruction to those who might build connections across pages, demanding audiences become attentive and active readers so that they might find solace and advice in a world that moves towards destruction.

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Michael Lapidge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111831610X
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England written by Michael Lapidge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as the essential reference work for this period, this volume brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars that cover the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons. The only reference work to cover the history, archaeology, arts, architecture, literatures, and languages of England from the Roman withdrawal to the Norman Conquest (c.450 – 1066 AD) Includes over 700 alphabetical entries written by 150 top scholars covering the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons Updated and expanded with 40 brand-new entries and a new appendix detailing "English Archbishops and Bishops, c.450-1066" Accompanied by maps, line drawings, photos, a table of "English Rulers, c.450-1066," and a headword index to facilitate searching An essential reference tool, both for specialists in the field, and for students looking for a thorough grounding in key topics of the period

The Art of Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Catherine E. Karkov
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843836289
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Anglo-Saxon England written by Catherine E. Karkov and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a fresh appraisal of the art of Anglo-Saxon England, this text looks at its influence upon the creation of an identity as a nation.

The Viking Blitzkrieg

Author : Martyn Whittock
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249726X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Viking Blitzkrieg written by Martyn Whittock and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Viking Wars had not taken place, would there have been a united England in the tenth century? Martyn Whittock believes not, arguing that without them there would have been no rise of the Godwin family and their conflict with Edward the Confessor, no Norman connection, no Norman Conquest and no Domesday Book. All of these features of English history were the products, or by-products, of these conflicts and the threat of Scandinavian attack. The wars and responses to them accelerated economic growth; stimulated state formation and an assertive sense of an English national identity; created a hybrid Anglo-Scandinavian culture that spread beyond the so-called Danelaw; and caused an upheaval in the ruling elite. By looking at the entire period of the wars and by taking a holistic view of their political, economic, social and cultural effects, their many-layered impact can at last be properly assessed.