A revealing portrait of this royal saint, one of the last kings
of Anglo-Saxon England.
Dr David Woodman is Fellow and Senior Tutor of Robinson College, University of Cambridge. His previous publications include Charters of Northern Houses, The Long Twelfth-Century View of the Anglo-Saxon Past and Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England.
David Woodman charts a shrewd course through the plentiful and
often contradictory narrative sources for Edward the Confessor's
reign. His book is particularly admirable for its recognition that,
unusually for an English monarch, Edward proved still more
influential dead than alive.
*Professor George Garnett*
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