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Edward the Confessor (Yale English Monarchs Series) (Paperback)

by Frank Barlow (Author)
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  • Paperback: 408 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press; New edition edition (8 April 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0300071566
  • ISBN-13: 978-0300071566
  • Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 314,661 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This biography of Edward the Confessor, first published in 1970, aims to rescue the image of the King from what the author sees as myth and bogus scholarship. Disentangling fact from legend, the text recreates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Normans.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Edward the Confessor - Frank Barlow, 21 Sep 2008
By Matthew Turner "loyalroyal" (Reading, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a good, solid and scholarly account of England's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king - and the last of the line of Alfred the Great to be king. Frank Barlow is clearly an authority on the king and on the period in general.

Originally published in 1970, this is a reissue of the original, with new material and an updated bibliography (of primary and secondary sources). The author has also taken the opportunity, in the new introduction, to take stock of new research and publications that have appered since then, including the re-editing of key primary sources for the reign, such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Orderic Vitalis's Historia Ecclesiastica. The book also comes with black and white plates illustrative of the reign, maps, genealogical tables and appendices with short essays discussing problems associated wih Edward - such as the Vita Aedwardi Regis and the process of Edward's canonisation.

Despite being a saint, Barlow works through the sources, legends, myths and propaganda to bring the reader to the real Edward - a consummate politician and survivor, whilst also providing a good understanding of Anglo-Saxon England on the eve of the Norman Conquest.

Recommended.
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