Edward the Confessor - (Penguin Monarchs) by David Woodman (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 <i>Anglo-Saxon Chronicle</i> and the <i>Vita Ædwardi Regis</i> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Dr David Woodman</b> is Fellow and Senior Tutor of Robinson College, University of Cambridge. His previous publications include<i> Charters of Northern Houses</i>, <i>The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past</i> and <i>Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England</i>.
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