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PUBLICATIONS OF

THE MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR ANGLO-SAXON STUDIES

Volume 8

Edgar, King of the English 959–975

New Interpretations

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 dissension, yet 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

royal house 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 because his 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.

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Editorial Board

Donald Scragg

Richard Bailey

Timothy Graham

Gale R. Owen-Crocker

Alexander Rumble

Leslie Webster

Published Titles

1. Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Thomas Northcote

Toller and the Toller Memorial Lectures, ed. Donald Scragg

2. Apocryphal Texts and Traditions in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Kathryn Powell

and Donald Scragg

3. King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry, ed. Gale R. Owen-Crocker

4. The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Catherine E. Karkov,

Sarah Larratt Keefer and Karen Louise Jolly

5. Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Alexander R. Rumble

6. Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas: A Palaeography, Susan D. Thompson

7. Britons in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Nick Higham

London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A.viii, fol. 2v

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Edgar, King of the English 959–975

New Interpretations

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DONALD SCRAGG

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Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Contributors x

Preface xi

Abbreviations xiii

Genealogy: The House of Alfred xvii

Map: England during the Reign of Edgar xviii

Part I: Documentary Evidence

1 Simon KeyneS 3

Edgar, rex admirabilis

2 S

imon KeyneS 60

A Conspectus of the Charters of King Edgar, 957–975

Part II: Edgar before 959

3 ShaShi JayaKumar 83

Eadwig and Edgar: Politics, Propaganda, Faction

4 C. P. L

ewiS 104

Edgar, Chester, and the Kingdom of the Mercians, 957–9

5 F

rederiCK m. BiggS 124

Edgar’s Path to the Throne

Part III: Edgar, 959–975

6 BarBara yorKe 143

The Women in Edgar’s Life

7 J

uLia CriCK 158

Edgar, Albion and Insular Dominion

8 L

eSLey aBramS 171

King Edgar and the Men of the Danelaw

9 h

ugh Pagan 192

The Pre-Reform Coinage of Edgar

Part IV: Edgar and the Monastic Revival

10 JuLia Barrow 211

The Chronology of the Benedictine ‘Reform’

11 C

atherine e. KarKov 224

The Frontispiece to the New Minster Charter and the King’s Two Bodies

12 a

Lexander r. rumBLe 242

The Laity and the Monastic Reform in the Reign of Edgar

13 m

erCedeS SaLvador-BeLLo 252

The Edgar Panegyrics in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Index

273

Illustrations

Frontispiece: London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A.viii, fol. 2v

Genealogy: The House

of Alfred xvii

Devised by Donald Scragg

Map: England during the reign of Edgar xviii

vised by Simon Keynes, drawn by Reginald Piggott

Figures

11.1 London,

British Library, Cotton Vespasian A.viii, fol. 3r 227

11.2 London, British Library, Additional 49598, fol. 118v 232

11.3 London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A.iii, fol. 2v 238

Tables

1.1 Char

ters of King Edgar, 957–975 59

7.1 Kings of Albion: royal styles in charters extant in pre-Conquest 162

form

9.1

Moneyers working at Chester between 946 and 979 206

9.2 Moneyers working at Derby, ‘NE’, Stafford and Tamworth between 207

the mid

960s and 979

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