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Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations (Paperback)
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Edgar, King of the English, 959-975 - New Interpretations (Paperback)
Series: Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies
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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 AEthelstan, 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
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