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 because his 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, SHASHIJAYAKUMAR, C.P, LEWIS, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, BARBARA YORKE, JULIA CRICK, LESLEY ABRAMS, HUGH PAGAN, JULIA BARROW, CATHERINE KARKOV, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, MERCEDES SALVADOR-BELLO.
Inhoudsopgave
Edgar:
Rex admirabilis – Simon D Keynes
A Conspectus of the Characters of King Edgar, 957-975 – Simon D Keynes
Eadwig and Edgar: Politics, Propaganda, Faction – Shashi Jayakumar
Edgar, Chester, and the Kingdom of the Mercians, 957-9 – C P Lewis
Edgar’s Path to the Throne –
The Women in Edgar’s Life – Barbara Yorke
Edgar, Albion and Insular Dominion – Julia C Crick
King Edgar and the Men of the Danelaw – Lesley Abrams
The Pre-Reform Coinage of Edgar – Hugh Pagan
The Chronology of the Benedictine `Reform’ – Julia Barrow
The Frontispiece to the New Minster Charter and the King’s Two Bodies – Catherine E. Karkov
The Laity and the Monastic Reform in the Reign of Edgar – Alexander R. Rumble
The Edgar Panegyrics in the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle – Mercedes Salvador-Bello
Over de auteur
CATHERINE E. KARKOV is Professor Emeritus of Art History, University of Leeds.
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