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9780415214971

Edward the Elder: 899-924

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415214971

  • ISBN10:

    0415214971

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 2001-05-18
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of figures
x
List of tables
xii
List of contributors
xiii
Acknowledgements xvi
Edward the Elder's reputation: an introduction
1(11)
Nick Higham
What is not known about the reign of Edward the Elder
12(13)
James Campbell
Edward as Ætheling
25(15)
Barbara Yorke
Edward, king of the Anglo-Saxons
40(27)
Simon Keynes
The coinage of Edward the Elder
67(12)
Stewart Lyon
The West Saxon tradition of dynastic marriage: with special reference to Edward the Elder
79(10)
Sheila Sharp
View from the West: an Irish perspective on West Saxon dynastic pactice
89(13)
Alex Woolf
Gloucester and the New Minister of St Oswald
102(10)
Carolyn Heighway
Ælfwynn, second lady of the Mercians
112(16)
Maggie Bailey
Edward the Elder's Danelaw
128(16)
Lesley Abrams
The shiring of Mercia - again
144(16)
David Hill
Edward the Elder and the re-establishment of Chester
160(7)
Simon Ward
The North-West frontier
167(21)
David Griffiths
A kingdom too far: York in the early tenth century
188(12)
Richard hall
The (non) submission of the northern kings in 920
200(12)
Michael R. Davidson
The Northern Hoards: from Cuerdale to Bossall/Flaxton
212(18)
James Graham-Campbell
Edward the Elder and the churches of Winchester and Wessex
230(18)
Alexander R. Rumble
Dynastic monasteries and family cults: Edward the Elder's sainted kindred
248(16)
Alan Thacker
On pa wœpnedhealfe: kingship and royal property from Æthelwulf to Edward the Elder
264(16)
Patrick Wormald
The Junius Psalter gloss: tradition and innovation
280(12)
Mechthild Gretsch
The embroideries from the tomb of St Cuthbert
292(15)
Elizabeth Coatsworth
Endpiece
307(6)
Nick Higham
Index 313

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