Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Genealogy of Alfred’s Descendants, 874–1016
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Forgetting Kings: The First 100 Years of Historiography of Eadred’s and Eadwig’s Reigns
- 2 King and Church in the Laws of King Edmund
- 3 Edmund’s Oath of Loyalty in Perspective: Innovation, Emulation, and a French Prince
- 4 ‘Both to Bind and to Loosen’: Royal Power and the Heriots of Ealdormen and Bishops
- 5 The Many Kings of Archbishop Wulfstan I
- 6 Going North: Revisiting the End of Northern Independence
- 7 Eadgifu at Eadred’s Court: the Expansion of and Limits on the Role of Mater Regis
- 8 Eadwig Has a Threesome: Sex and the Breaking of Authority in the Tenth Century
- 9 London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian D. XV: A Priest’s Book from before the Benedictine Reform?
- Index
- Anglo-Saxon Studies
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2024
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Genealogy of Alfred’s Descendants, 874–1016
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Forgetting Kings: The First 100 Years of Historiography of Eadred’s and Eadwig’s Reigns
- 2 King and Church in the Laws of King Edmund
- 3 Edmund’s Oath of Loyalty in Perspective: Innovation, Emulation, and a French Prince
- 4 ‘Both to Bind and to Loosen’: Royal Power and the Heriots of Ealdormen and Bishops
- 5 The Many Kings of Archbishop Wulfstan I
- 6 Going North: Revisiting the End of Northern Independence
- 7 Eadgifu at Eadred’s Court: the Expansion of and Limits on the Role of Mater Regis
- 8 Eadwig Has a Threesome: Sex and the Breaking of Authority in the Tenth Century
- 9 London, British Library, MS Cotton Vespasian D. XV: A Priest’s Book from before the Benedictine Reform?
- Index
- Anglo-Saxon Studies
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- The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959New Interpretations, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2024