Description: Edward the Confessor : The Sainted King, Hardcover by Woodman, David, ISBN 0241383005, ISBN-13 9780241383001, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 Ædwardi 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.
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Book Title: Edward the Confessor (Penguin Monarchs) : the Sainted King
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books, The Limited
Topic: Royalty, Europe / Great Britain / General, Europe / Great Britain / Middle Ages (449-1066), Historical
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2021
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 7.2 Oz
Author: David WOOdman
Item Length: 7.3 in
Book Series: Penguin Monarchs Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Hardcover
