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Author : Henry Richards Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000148126
Author : Tom Licence
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300255584
An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066 One of the last kings of Anglo-Saxon England, Edward the Confessor regained the throne for the House of Wessex and is the only English monarch to have been canonized. Often cast as a reluctant ruler, easily manipulated by his in-laws, he has been blamed for causing the invasion of 1066—the last successful conquest of England by a foreign power. Tom Licence navigates the contemporary webs of political deceit to present a strikingly different Edward. He was a compassionate man and conscientious ruler, whose reign marked an interval of peace and prosperity between periods of strife. More than any monarch before, he exploited the mystique of royalty to capture the hearts of his subjects. This compelling biography provides a much-needed reassessment of Edward’s reign—calling into doubt the legitimacy of his successors and rewriting the ending of Anglo-Saxon England.
Author : Henry Richards Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000219227
Author : Frank Barlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0198202032
The anonymous Life of King Edward written about the time of the Norman Conquest, is an important and intriguing source for the history of Anglo-Saxon England in the years just before 1066. It provides a fascinating account of Edward the Confessor and his family, including his wife Edith, his father-in-law Earl Godwin, and the queen's brothers Tostig and Harold (who became king in 1066). The foundations of the legend of St. Edward the Confessor are apparent from the version of the work supplied by the unique manuscript of circa 1100. Barlow explores the problems raised by this anonymous and now incomplete manuscript and examines the development of the cult of St. Edward. He also investigates the life and works of Goscelin of St. Bertin, a possible author. For this second edition, Barlow has not only undertaken a complete revision of the book, but recent discoveries have enabled him to reconstruct in part the lacunae in BL Harley MS 526 with texts closer to the original.
Author : Henry Richards Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038209891
Author : Henry Richards Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:63451136
Author : Henry Richards Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z228994907
Author : Frank Barlow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300183825
Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical understanding. "Deploying all the resources of formidable scholarship, [Barlow] has recovered the real Edward." — Spectator
Author : Luard
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1020424907
A comprehensive account of the life, reign, and legacy of one of England's most revered and mysterious monarchs - Edward the Confessor. From his early years as a child-king to his final days as a saintly figure, this book provides a detailed and engaging portrait of a pivotal period in English history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard Mortimer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132207106
"This collection of essays, originating in the celebration of the millennium of Edward the Confessor's birth, is a full-scale reassessment of Edward's life and cult." --Book Jacket.
Author : Edward,Henry Richards Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1017605408
Author : Henry Richards Luard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 143565157X
Author : Saint Aelred (of Rievaulx)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028552037
When Henry II came to the throne of England, he was hailed as the one who brought to an end the divisions caused by the Norman conquest, for both the Saxon and Norman royal lines met in him. To promote this newfound unity, the cult of King Edward the Confessor was promoted, culminating in his canonization in 1161. Shortly afterwards, on October 13, 1163, the new saint's body was solemnly enshrined in Westminster Abbey. On this occasion the honor of preparing the sermon was given to Aelred, the revered Abbot of Rievaulx. On the same occasion, Aelred undertook to write the life of St. Edward, and this is the text now first presented in English.
Author : Bruce R. O'Brien
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512805222
Sometime before the middle of the twelfth century, an anonymous English writer composed the Leges Edwardi, a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), cousin of William the Conqueror. The laws were said to have been spoken to William shortly after the Conquest by "English nobles who were wise men and learned in their law," recounting "the rules of their laws and customs" for the invading Norman king. When they had finished, the king wondered whether it might not be better for all of them to live under the law of his Viking ancestors; the English, however, protested that they preferred to live by their own preconquest laws. The king acquiesced, and thus, goes the story, were the laws of King Edward the Confessor authorized. Looking through the lens of this important—if spurious—treatise, God's Peace and King's Peace offers the first ground-level view of English law during the century in which the common law was born. Bruce R. O'Brien compares the Leges Edwardi to other memorials of legal policy and practice from before and after 1066, in both Normandy and England, and advances conclusions about the treatises' reliability on specific points of law. He also shows how the Laws of Edward the Confessor, taken as a record of English law at the conquest, came to be used as authoritative evidence behind the Magna Carta that the king was under the law, and how it was eventually declared a notorious forgery by seventeenth-century antiquaries and Enlightenment historians.
Author : Percy Dearmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409988163
The Reverend Percy Dearmer MA (Oxon), DD, (1867-1936) was an English priest and liturgist best known as the author of The Parson's Handbook, a liturgical manual. A lifelong socialist, he was an early advocate of the ordination of women to public ministry but not to the priesthood, and very concerned with social justice. He had a strong influence on the music of the church and, with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Martin Shaw, is credited with the revival and spread of traditional and medieval English musical forms. In 1901, after serving four curacies, Dearmer was appointed the third vicar of London church St. Mary-the-Virgin, Primrose Hill, where he remained until 1915. His works include: Christian Socialism and Practical Christianity (1897), The English Liturgy (1903), The English Hymnal (1906), Socialism and Religion (1908), The Church and Social Questions (1910) and Reunion and Rome (1911).