King Edgar [his Coronation in Bath]
Author: Helen Panter
Publisher: Morgan Publishing
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Helen Panter
Publisher: Morgan Publishing
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Donald Scragg
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1843839288
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence. King Edgar ruled England for a short but significant period in the middle of the tenth century. Two of his four children succeeded him as king and two were to become canonized. He was known to later generations as "the Pacific" or"the Peaceable" because his reign was free from external attack and without internal dissention, and he presided over a period of major social and economic change: early in his rule the growth of monastic power and wealth involved redistribution of much of the country's assets, while the end of his reign saw the creation of England's first national coinage, with firm fiscal control from the centre. He fulfilled King Alfred's dream of the West Saxon royalhouse ruling the whole of England, and, like his uncle King Æthelstan, he maintained overlordship of the whole of Britain. Despite his considerable achievements, however, Edgar has been neglected by scholars, partly becausehis reign has been thought to have passed with little incident. A time for a full reassessment of his achievement is therefore long overdue, which the essays in this volume provide. CONTRIBUTORS: SIMON KEYNES, SHASHI JAYAKUMAR, C.P. LEWIS, FREDERICK M. BIGGS, BARBARA YORKE, JULIA CRICK, LESLEY ABRAMS, HUGH PAGAN, JULIA BARROW, CATHERINE KARKOV, ALEXANDER R. RUMBLE, MERCEDES SALVADOR-BELLO
Author: Marvin Rosenberg
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780874136579
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Topics in this collection include discussions of acting the "Big Four, " as well as studies on politics, language, and history.
Author: Laura Wangerin
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0472131397
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What makes a successful government?
Author: Annie Bullen
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2013-12-30
Total Pages: 150
ISBN-13: 1459724941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On June 2, 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 2013 - 60 years later - a nation comes together once more to celebrate that special event.
Author: Geoffrey Hindley
Publisher: Robinson
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1472118685
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta, the influence of which is still felt today around the world. In 1215 the barons of England forced King John to sign a revolutionary document which would change the political landscape not only of thirteenth-century Britain, but of the modern world. Magna Carta was the forerunner of the constitution that limited the powers of the crown and its echoes can be found in the seventeenth-century Civil Wars, the struggles for American Independence, the work of Thomas Paine and in the bedrock constitutional legislation of just about every democratic country today. As civil Liberties and the rule of law are increasingly brought into question throughout the world, leading medieval historian Geoffrey Hindley breathes vivid life into the story behind the signing of Magna Carta, and reveals the undiminished significance of this ancient document in today?s world.