Edgar, King of the English 959-975: New Interpretations (Pubns Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies) PDF
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PUBLICATIONS OF THE MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES Volume 8 Edgar, King of the English 959–975 New Interpretations King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as ‘the Pacific’ or ‘the Peaceable’ because his reign was free from external attack and without internal dissension, yet he presided over a period of major social and economic change: early in his rule the growth of monastic power and wealth involved redistribution of much of the country’s assets, while the end of his reign saw the creation of England’s first national coinage, with firm fiscal control from the centre. He fulfilled King Alfred’s dream of the West Saxon royal house ruling the whole of England, and, like his uncle King Æthelstan, he maintained overlordship of the whole of Britain. Despite his considerable achievements, however, Edgar has been neglected by scholars, partly because his reign has been thought to have passed with little incident. A time for a full reassessment of his achievement is therefore long overdue, which the essays in this volume provide. PUBLICATIONS OF THE MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES ISSN 1478–6710 Editorial Board Donald Scragg Richard Bailey Timothy Graham Gale R. Owen-Crocker Alexander Rumble Leslie Webster Published Titles 1. Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Thomas Northcote Toller and the Toller Memorial Lectures, ed. Donald Scragg 2. Apocryphal Texts and Traditions in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Kathryn Powell and Donald Scragg 3. King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. Gale R. Owen-Crocker 4. The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Catherine E. Karkov, Sarah Larratt Keefer and Karen Louise Jolly 5. Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Alexander R. Rumble 6. Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas: A Palaeography, Susan D. Thompson 7. Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick Higham London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A.viii, fol. 2v © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved. Edgar, King of the English 959–975 New Interpretations edited by DONALD SCRAGG THE BOyDELL PRESS © Contributors 2008 All rights reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 2008 The Boydell Press, Woodbridge ISBN 978–1–84383–399–4 The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc, 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, Ny 14620, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Printed in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire Contents List of Illustrations ix Contributors x Preface xi Abbreviations xiii Genealogy: The House of Alfred xvii Map: England during the Reign of Edgar xviii Part I: Documentary Evidence 1 Simon KeyneS 3 Edgar, rex admirabilis 2 Simon KeyneS 60 A Conspectus of the Charters of King Edgar, 957–975 Part II: Edgar before 959 3 ShaShi JayaKumar 83 Eadwig and Edgar: Politics, Propaganda, Faction 4 C. P. LewiS 104 Edgar, Chester, and the Kingdom of the Mercians, 957–9 5 FrederiCK m. BiggS 124 Edgar’s Path to the Throne Part III: Edgar, 959–975 6 BarBara yorKe 143 The Women in Edgar’s Life 7 JuLia CriCK 158 Edgar, Albion and Insular Dominion 8 LeSLey aBramS 171 King Edgar and the Men of the Danelaw 9 hugh Pagan 192 The Pre-Reform Coinage of Edgar Part IV: Edgar and the Monastic Revival 10 JuLia Barrow 211 The Chronology of the Benedictine ‘Reform’ 11 Catherine e. KarKov 224 The Frontispiece to the New Minster Charter and the King’s Two Bodies 12 aLexander r. rumBLe 242 The Laity and the Monastic Reform in the Reign of Edgar 13 merCedeS SaLvador-BeLLo 252 The Edgar Panegyrics in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Index 273 Illustrations Frontispiece: London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A.viii, fol. 2v © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved. Genealogy: The House of Alfred xvii Devised by Donald Scragg Map: England during the reign of Edgar xviii Devised by Simon Keynes, drawn by Reginald Piggott Figures 11.1 London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A.viii, fol. 3r 227 © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved. 11.2 London, British Library, Additional 49598, fol. 118v 232 © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved. 11.3 London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.iii, fol. 2v 238 © British Library Board. All Rights Reserved. Tables 1.1 Charters of King Edgar, 957–975 59 7.1 Kings of Albion: royal styles in charters extant in pre-Conquest 162 form 9.1 Moneyers working at Chester between 946 and 979 206 9.2 Moneyers working at Derby, ‘NE’, Stafford and Tamworth between 207 the mid 960s and 979
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