Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959 (eBook)

New Interpretations

Christopher Riedel, Mary Elizabeth Blanchard (Herausgeber)

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2024
236 Seiten
Boydell & Brewer Ltd (Verlag)
9781805432142 (ISBN)

Infos

Essays highlighting the importance of three kings - Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig - in understanding England in the tenth century.Much scholarly attention has been devoted to both the expanding kingdom of Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, and thelstan, and to the larger and integrated realm of their more distant successors, Edgar and thelred II. However, the English kingdom in the 940s and 950s, and its three kings, Edmund (939-946), Eadred (946-955), and Eadwig (955-959), the men who inherited and held together the kingdom created by their immediate predecessors, have been somewhat neglected, with little research being dedicated to these men as kings, or the era in which they ruled.This volume offers a variety of approaches to the period. Its contributors bring to light royal legal innovations to ecclesiastical law, oaths, heriot, complex factional politics, including the crucial role of queens, differing perspectives on the final era of an independent northern kingdom of York, and developments in literary culture outside the domineering trend of the later monastic reformers.

Inhalt

Introduction - Mary Elizabeth Blanchard and Christopher Riedel
1. Forgetting Kings: The First 100 Years of Historiography of Eadred's and Eadwig's Reigns - Alison Hudson
2. King and Church in the Laws of King Edmund - Nicole Marafioti
3. Edmund's Oath of Loyalty in Perspective: Innovation, Emulation, and a French Prince - Isabelle Beaudoin
4. 'Both to Bind and to Loosen': Royal Power and the Heriots of Ealdormen and Bishops - Stuart Pracy
5. The Many Kings of Archbishop Wulfstan I - Andrew Rabin
6. Going North: Revisiting the End of Northern Independence - Neil McGuigan
7. Eadgifu at Eadred's Court: the Expansion of and Limits on the Role of Mater Regis - Mary Elizabeth Blanchard
8. Eadwig Has a Threesome: Sex and the Breaking of Authority in the Tenth Century - Katherine Weikert
9. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. XV: A Priest's Book from before the Benedictine Reform? - Gerald Dyson

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.2.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Anglo-Saxon Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Anglo-Saxon Studies
• Co-Autor: Isabelle Beaudoin, Gerald P. Dyson, Alison Hudson, Nicole Marafioti, Neil McGuigan, Stuart Pracy, Andrew Rabin, Katherine Weikert
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Woodbridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Schlagworte: Æthelred • Æthelstan • anglo-saxon chronicle • Archbishop Dunstan • Archbishop Oda • Archbishop Wulfstan • Archbishop Wulfstan I of York • Eric Bloodaxe • Family and sexual politics • great heathen army • Heriots and wills • Historiography and erasure • Kingdom of York • King Edgar • King Malcolm of the Scots • King Olaf of Northumbria • law codes • oaths of loyalty • Paleography and priests’ books • queenship and motherhood
• ISBN-13: 9781805432142 / 9781805432142