This article surveys the historiography of the tenth-century kingdom of the English from the 1970s to the present. Foundational interventions by James Campbell and Patrick Wormald framed the period as decisive for the consolidation of royal authority, legislative ambition, and administrative sophistication. Subsequent scholarship, however, drawing on advances in charter studies, numismatics, prosopography, and legal history, has complicated this picture. Scholars have emphasised regional variation, legal pluralism, and the selective character of royal intervention, while studies of ritual, queenship, and political communication have further unsettled narratives of English exceptionalism. The tenth century now appears less as a linear moment of state consolidation than as a period of experimentation in authority, identity, and governance, whose historiography reflects broader methodological transformations within medieval studies.
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Titolo del capitolo
The Making of the Tenth-Century Kingdom of the English in Historiography: 1974-2025
Autori
Alice Hicklin
Lingua
Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1094-2.11
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Repenser le Xe siècle. États des lieux et perspectives / Ripensare il X secolo. Bilanci e prospettive
Curatori
Gianmarco De Angelis, Tiziana Lazzari
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Numero di pagine
490
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1094-2
ISBN Print
979-12-215-1093-5
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979-12-215-1094-2
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979-12-215-1096-6
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Reti Medievali E-Book
ISSN della collana
2704-6362
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2704-6079