Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar : six essays on political, cultural, and ecclesiastical revival
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Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar : six essays on political, cultural, and ecclesiastical revival
(Studies in Anglo-Saxon history, 3)
Boydell Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-229) and indexes
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An important study of the emergence of the kingdom of England in the first half of the 10th century.
This book is concerned with aspects of the revival of English military,ecclesiastical, and intellectual strength in the period from King Alfred's defeat of the Great Danish Army at Edington in 878 to that of the triumph of Benedictinism in the of Edgar, king of England959-975. Studying intellectual developments of the first half of the10th century, Dr Dumville argues that those decades were a period of continuation of the Alfredian renascence and he looks back into that king's troubled but productive reign to discover new aspects of his thinking and to offer some new interpretations of his actions.These were also the years in which the kingdom of England was formed:attention is therefore given to King AEthelstan, its creator. This series of new studies draws on fresh manuscript-evidence as well as reinterpreting texts long known to historians. By bringing together the testimonies of a wide variety of sources, it seeks to provide the basis on which a new history of the period may be written.
DAVID N. DUMVILLE is Reader in the Early Mediaeval History and Culture of the British Isles at the University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
- The treaty of Alfred and Guthrum
- ecclesiastical lands and the defence of Wessex in the first Viking age
- the Anglo-Saxon chronicle and the origins of English square miniscule script
- between Alfred the Great and Edgar the Peaceable - Aethelstan, first King of England
- learning and the Church in the England of King Edmund I, 939-946
- King Alfred and the 10th-century reform of the English Church.
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