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Hace 4 días · Citation: Dr Rory Naismith, review of Æthelstan: The First King of England, (review no. 1151) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/1151. Date accessed: 2 June, 2024. Æthelstan might not, to the uninitiated, seem a very likely candidate for a volume in the prestigious Yale English Monarchs series.
Hace 2 días · The origins of the United Kingdom can be traced to the time of the Anglo-Saxon king Athelstan, who in the early 10th century ce secured the allegiance of neighbouring Celtic kingdoms and became “the first to rule what previously many kings shared between them,” in the words of a contemporary chronicle.
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Hace 2 días · The town is also the childhood home of Thomas Hobbes, one of the world’s most influential political philosophers. This summer, all eyes are on Malmesbury for a very special reason: the 1100th anniversary of Athelstan’s accession to the throne in 924. Athelstan, the first king to rule all of England, chose Malmesbury as his final resting place.
Hace 4 días · The Gauls ( Latin: Galli; Ancient Greek: Γαλάται, Galátai) were a group of Celtic peoples of mainland Europe in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly 5th century BC to 5th century AD). Their homeland was known as Gaul ( Gallia ). They spoke Gaulish, a continental Celtic language .
Hace 3 días · The Anglo-Saxons were a cultural group that inhabited much of what is now England in the Early Middle Ages, and spoke Old English. They traced their origins to Germanic settlers who came to Britain from mainland Europe in the 5th century.
Hace 3 días · it seems unlikely that the entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle refers to any of Athelstan’s half-sisters and, indeed, William of Malmesbury claimed that the bride was a full sister of Athelstan’s. Athelstan’s mother, Edward’s first wife, Ecgwynn, barely emerges from the shadows and is not mentioned by any of the contemporary sources.
