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Edward the Confessor: The Sainted King
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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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“Breve pero muy correcto. Buen manejo de las fuentes y seriedad en la investigación y en la presentación de hipótesis, sin dejarse llevar por especulaciones ni por la tentación de novelar. Presenta un relato coherente y claro, lo que es de agradecer al tratarse de una época particularmente confusa. Muy interesante el último capítulo sobre las peripecias de la canonización de Eduardo. Se agradecería un poco más de detalle en algunos puntos, así como un seguimiento de determinados personajes y acontecimientos posteriores al fallecimiento de Eduardo: pienso en los acontecimientos de 1066 o en una breve nota que indicara qué fue de los descendientes de Edmund Ironside, pero entiendo que es exigir demasiado y que ello excede al objetivo de la colección de biografías breves a la que pertenece este volumen.”
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