Medievalists.net » Athelstan http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Making a difference in tenth-century politics: King Athelstan’s sisters and Frankish queenship http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/10/making-difference-tenth-century-politics-king-athelstans-sisters-frankish-queenship/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/10/making-difference-tenth-century-politics-king-athelstans-sisters-frankish-queenship/#comments Sat, 10 May 2014 11:59:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49516 In the early years of the tenth century several Anglo-Saxon royal women, all daughters of King Edward the Elder of Wessex (899-924) and sisters (or half-sisters) of his son King Athelstan (924-39), were despatched across the Channel as brides for Frankish and Saxon rulers and aristocrats. This article addresses the fate of some of these women through an analysis of their political identities.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/05/10/making-difference-tenth-century-politics-king-athelstans-sisters-frankish-queenship/feed/ 0 The Danish attacks on London and Southwark in ‘1016’ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:38:11 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38971 This incident has been fatally embroidered by many local historians, taking their cue from various sources, so that the popular accounts have distorted what was already a confusing set of events.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/01/28/the-danish-attacks-on-london-and-southwark-in-1016/feed/ 0 The invasion of Scotland, 934 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/03/the-invasion-of-scotland-934/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/03/the-invasion-of-scotland-934/#comments Mon, 03 Dec 2012 17:47:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37717 The various conflicts and settlements in the period 920 to 945 are often considered inisolation but they are connected and also together form part of two longer-term processes

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/03/the-invasion-of-scotland-934/feed/ 0 Anglo-Saxon law and numismatics: A reassessment in the light of Patrick Wormald’s the Making of English Law http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/anglo-saxon-law-and-numismatics-a-reassessment-in-the-light-of-patrick-wormalds-the-making-of-english-law/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/10/22/anglo-saxon-law-and-numismatics-a-reassessment-in-the-light-of-patrick-wormalds-the-making-of-english-law/#comments Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:32:48 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36630 In this article, I wish to return to the references to coinage in the Anglo-Saxon laws in the light of Patrick Wormald's important research on the laws, especially his The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, which has made this difficult evidence much more penetrable to the non-specialist.

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