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Author Foot, Sarah (Sarah Rosamund Irvine)

Title Æthelstan : the first king of England / Sarah Foot.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Yale English monarchs series
Yale English monarchs.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Writing a medieval life -- English king? -- Family -- Court -- Church -- Kingdom -- War -- Death -- British monarch -- Memory, oblivion, commemoration -- Appendix I. William of Malmesbury and a lost life of King Æthelstan -- Appendix II. When King Æthelstan was where.
Summary The powerful and innovative King Æthelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful fifteen years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unprecedented political connections across Europe, and succeeded in creating the first unified kingdom of the English. To claim for him the title of "first English monarch" is no exaggeration. In this nuanced portrait of Æthelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written. She traces his life through the various spheres in which he lived and worked, beginning with the intimate context of his family, then extending outward to his unusual multiethnic royal court, the Church and his kingdom, the wars he conducted, and finally his death and legacy. Foot describes a sophisticated man who was not only a great military leader but also a worthy king. He governed brilliantly, developed creative ways to project his image as a ruler, and devised strategic marriage treaties and gift exchanges to cement alliances with the leading royal and ducal houses of Europe. Æthelstan's legacy, seen in the new light of this masterful biography, is inextricably connected to the very forging of England and early English identity. - Publisher.
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Subject Athelstan, King of England, 895-939.
Athelstan, King of England, 895-939.
Athelstan, King of England, 895-939.
Great Britain -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
Great Britain.
Kings and rulers.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Great Britain -- History -- Athelstan, 925-940.
Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
Chronological Term 449-1066
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Foot, Sarah. Æthelstan. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300125351 (DLC) 2010051046 (OCoLC)670481431
ISBN 9780300160376 (electronic book)
0300160372 (electronic book)
9780300125351
0300125356
0978300125351 (cl ; alkaline paper)