thelstan: The First King of England

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Sarah Foot is Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Christ Church, Oxford, and a foremost scholar of tenth-century history.

well-researched and very scholarly...this is a particularly welcome volume which will serve as a foundation for further work on the period."-Northern History

" A definitive and comprehensive study that fully does justice to thelstan for the first time."-Nicholas Orme, Church Times

" An enthralling work of historical detection. . . . In the pages of this remarkable biography-a work suffused with a rare empathy- thelstan emerges as a character of flesh and blood."-Hywel Williams, Times Literary Supplement

" A compelling new biography....Foot manages to construct a remarkably clear vision of this king who deserves to be more widely known."-David Musgrove, BBC History Magazine (Books of the Year)

" An outstanding biography....From a wide range of sources....Foot has pieced together a narrative that speaks of the realities of a vanished world.....Foot has amassed and arranged the evidence for thelstan life with great skill and flair....a triumph of historiography that celebrates a life rich in spiritual, intellectual and martial endeavor. Revisionary, thoughtful, beautifully written and exhaustively researched, this biography of thelstan is set to become a classic."-Helen Fulton, Times Higher Education

"thelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our understanding of the period in a way that few others have managed." - Chris Wickham, author of The Inheritance Of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000

'Here at last is a biography doing full justice to one of the most important, but least remembered, Anglo-Saxon laymen: Sarah Foot comes as close as anyone can to interpreting thelstan's enigmatic personality and varied achievements.' - John Blair, author of The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society

'In 'thelstan, Sarah Foot presents most successfully a remarkably vibrant portrait of a king whose visage has been clouded for many of us far too long.' - Patrick Conner