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Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)

by Tom Holland Book 20 in the Penguin Monarchs series.

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Tom Holland places Æthelstan at the centre of the making of England. The book follows the grandson of Alfred the Great as he united the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, extended power into Northumbria and claimed an authority that reached beyond England to the wider British Isles.

Æthelstan’s victory at Brunanburh, legal activity and European dynastic diplomacy helped define a new kind of kingship. Holland reconstructs a ruler obscured by limited sources, showing why contemporaries regarded him as one of the most powerful monarchs in western Europe.

Historical Periods

Formation of England899–1066 CE

Genres

Court & Political Fiction

Historical people

Æthelstan895–939

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