The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959: New Interpretations

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.

Author: Mary Elizabeth Blanchard
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 02/06/2024
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781783277643

About the Author
Dyson, Gerald P.: - GERALD P. DYSON is Assistant Professor of History at Kentucky Christian University.Rabin, Andrew: - Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville.Weikert, Katherine: - KATHERINE WEIKERT is Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester.
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