Edward the Elder (eBook, PDF)

899-924
Redaktion: Higham, N. J.; Hill, D. H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

By drawing upon sources as diverse as literature and archaeology, this book brings together a rich variety of scholarship to offer a new insight into the world of Edward the Elder, son and successor of King Alfred.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136349416
• Artikelnr.: 39703780

Autorenporträt

D.H. Hill, N.J. Higham

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Edward the Elder's reputation: an introduction
2 What is not known about the reign of Edward the Elder
3 Edward as Ætheling
4 Edward
king of the Anglo-Saxons
5 The coinage of Edward the Elder
6 The West Saxon tradition of dynastic marriage: with special reference to Edward the Elder
7 View from the West: an Irish perspective on West Saxon dynastic pactice
8 Gloucester and the New Minster of St Oswald
9 Ælfwynn
second lady of the Mercians
10 Edward the Elder's Danelaw
11 The shiring of Mercia - again
12 Edward the Elder and the re-establishment of Chester
13 The North-West frontier
14 A kingdom too far: York in the early tenth century
15 The (non)submission of the northern kings in 920
16 The Northern Hoards: from Cuerdale to Bossall/Flaxton
17 Edward the Elder and the churches of Winchester and Wessex
18 Dynastic monasteries and family cults: Edward the Elder's sainted kindred
19 On þa wæpnedhealfe: kingship and royal property from Æthelwulf to Edward the Elder
20 The Junius Psalter gloss: tradition and innovation
21 The embroideries from the tomb of St Cuthbert
22 Endpiece
Index