Edgar, King of the English, 959-975: New Interpretations

Fresh assessments of Edgar's reign, reappraising key elements using documentary, coin, and pictorial evidence.

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 dissention, and he presided over a period of major social and economic...