Edward the Confessor: The Sainted King Contributor(s): Woodman, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0241383005 ISBN-13: 9780241383001 Publisher: Allen Lane OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 2021 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Royalty - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Europe - Great Britain - Middle Ages (449-1066) |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2020445340 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.1" W x 7.3" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Edward the Confessor, one of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, is in part a figure of myths created in the later medieval period. David Woodman traces the course of his 24-year-long reign through the lens of contemporary sources, from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Vita dwardi Regis to the Bayeux Tapestry, to uncover the fraught and complex politics of his life. Edward was a shrewd politician who, having endured a long period of exile from England in his youth, ascended the throne in 1042 and came to control a highly sophisticated administration. Such was his power in the mid-eleventh century that the late Anglo-Saxon coinage from his reign is the only example in western Europe of a royal monopoly across such a large area. What we know as 'England' had only relatively recently come into being and Woodman constructs a portrait of an age by untangling the truth from the saintly legend and shows how the events of Edward's reign led, through many twists and turns, to the Norman Conquest. |