Elton on The English
A Discussion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11005604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Patrick Wormald (University College London, corresponding author), John Gillingham (0000-0002-5134-3498, UCL Australia), Colin Richmond (UCL Australia) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Pages | 317-336 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3679283 |
| OpenAlex | W2110013710 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
SIR Geoffrey Elton begins his 'essay' on The English in 927, ‘the year in which Æthelstan, king of Wessex and Mercia, took over the Danish and English parts of Northumbria and thereby in effect also accepted the existence of a separate kingdom of Scodand’. It was a characteristic moment to choose. This is the date given by the Handbook of British Chronology , evidendy the consideration foremost in Sir Geoffrey's mind. Ædielstan was the first to declare (in effect) that ‘this realm of England is an empire’, which one might have suspected to be a factor too, had Elton not soon explicitly denied any Anglo-Saxon meaning to ‘such noise’. More pertinently, Ædielstan was actually the first king of about all of what is now England, and the first so to style himself officially. By any standards except his grandfather's he was one of die most gifted and well-counselled rulers in English history, whom only the quirks of surviving evidence and historiographical fashion have denied the status of a William the Conqueror or an Edward I
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| Highly cited | No |