Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig, 939-959

MARY ELIZABETH BLANCHARD is an early medieval historian at Ave Maria University specializing in tenth- and eleventh-century England with specific focus on prosopography and activities of the secular and ecclesiastical elites. CHRISTOPHER RIEDEL teaches medieval & ancient history at Albion College and is completing a biography on Æthelwold of Winchester. GERALD P. DYSON is Assistant Professor of History at Kentucky Christian University. Alison Hudson is an historian who works on tenth- and eleventh-century monks and manuscripts. She received her doctorate from Oxford University in 2014, and has since worked in Brussels, London, and Orlando. Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville. KATHERINE WEIKERT is Senior Lecturer in Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester.

• Introduction - Mary Elizabeth Blanchard and Christopher Riedel1. Forgetting Kings: The First 100 Years of Historiography of Eadred's and Eadwig's Reigns - Alison Hudson2. King and Church in the Laws of King Edmund - Nicole Marafioti3. Edmund's Oath of Loyalty in Perspective: Innovation, Emulation, and a French Prince - Isabelle Beaudoin4. 'Both to Bind and to Loosen': Royal Power and the Heriots of Ealdormen and Bishops - Stuart Pracy5. The Many Kings of Archbishop Wulfstan I - Andrew Rabin6. Going North: Revisiting the End of Northern Independence - Neil McGuigan7. Eadgifu at Eadred's Court: the Expansion of and Limits on the Role of Mater Regis - Mary Elizabeth Blanchard8. Eadwig Has a Threesome: Sex and the Breaking of Authority in the Tenth Century - Katherine Weikert9. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian D. XV: A Priest's Book from before the Benedictine Reform? - Gerald Dyson

The collection of essays presented in The Reigns of Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig are exceptional works that do exceedingly well to explore the reigns of three kings which have been sidelined too often in the scholarship. The text is very accessible to those wanting to open up new pathways to better understand the tenth century. It should also be of value to a wide range of scholars interested in kingship more broadly, and it will surely earn a place on their shelves.