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The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century (Hardcover)
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The central argument of The Formation of the English Kingdom in the
Tenth Century is that the English kingdom which existed at the time
of the Norman Conquest was defined by the geographical parameters
of a set of administrative reforms implemented in the mid- to late
tenth century, and not by a vision of English unity going back to
Alfred the Great (871-899). In the first half of the tenth century,
successive members of the Cerdicing dynasty established a loose
domination over the other great potentates in Britain. They were
celebrated as kings of the whole island, but even in their Wessex
heartlands they probably had few means to regulate routinely the
conduct of the general populace. Detailed analysis of coins,
shires, hundreds, and wapentakes suggests that it was only around
the time of Edgar (957/9-975) that the Cerdicing kings developed
the relatively standardised administrative apparatus of the
so-called 'Anglo-Saxon state'. This substantially increased their
ability to impinge upon the lives of ordinary people living between
the Channel and the Tees, and served to mark that area off from the
rest of the island. The resultant cleft undermined the idea of a
pan-British realm, and demarcated the early English kingdom as a
distinct and coherent political unit. In this volume, George
Molyneaux places the formation of the English kingdom in a European
perspective, and challenges the notion that its development was
exceptional: the Cerdicings were only one of several ruling
dynasties around the fringes of the former Carolingian Empire for
which the late ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries were a time of
territorial expansion and consolidation.
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