num_pages: 381
description: Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus scholarship. Disentangling verifiable fact from saintly legend, he vividly re-creates the final years of the Anglo-Danish monarchy and examines England before the Norman Conquest with deep insight and great historical understanding. "Deploying all the resources of formidable scholarship, [Barlow] has recovered the real Edward." â€” Spectator
language: English
title: Edward the Confessor
titlecomplete: Edward the Confessor
characters: Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, Edith of Wessex, Cnut the Great, Alfred Aetheling, Edward the Confessor, Baldwin V, Count of Flanders
genres: Anglo Saxon, European History, Nonfiction, History, Medieval History, Medieval, British Literature, Biography
ratings_count: 98
series: The English Monarchs
publisher: University of California Press