Output details
33 - Theology and Religious Studies
University of Oxford
Book title
Æthelstan
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Yale Univ Pr
ISBN of book
9780300125351
Year of publication
2011
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
Foot’s biography of Æthelstan (the first ever full-length account of his life and reign) required engagement with a complex range of sources, presenting particular interpretative problems. The reign is ill-served in contemporary narratives and serious doubt has been cast on the authenticity of the only substantial later medieval account. Conventional biography proving impossible, Foot devised a method placing the person of the king at the centre of the different environments in which he lived, using charters, coins, law-codes, poems and his manuscript- and relic-collections to flesh out the sparse narrative record. The project took 7 years, one taken as leave.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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