The King's Body (original) (raw)
About this book
The King’s Body investigates the role of royal bodies, funerals, and graves in English succession debates from the death of Alfred the Great in 899 through the Norman Conquest in 1066.
Author / Editor information
Marafioti Nicole :
Nicole Marafioti is an assistant professor of history at Trinity University.
Reviews
Lindsay Digglemann:
‘Marafioti persuasively shows just how important the management of Royal remains became in Anglo-Saxon world… Fine study.’
Victoria Whiteworth:
‘Nicole Marafioti’s book is eloquent, incisive, and well-grounded in a wide range of primary sources…. She approaches each account from numerous different interrogative perspectives, thus extracting a huge amount of insight and information.’
Sarah Foot:
‘Marafioti’s lucid and wide-ranging survey of the royal dead in tenth- and eleventh-century England offers numerous fresh insights into the politics of the period… It makes compelling reading.’
D.J. Shepherd:
‘Well-researched, written, cited, and indexed, this book provokes discussion and is a fine addition to scholarly libraries… Highly recommended.’
Christina Lee, Associate Professor in Viking Studies, University of Nottingham:
“Scholarly and well written, The King’s Body places burial in the realm of a political statement: a very new suggestion.”
Andy Orchard, Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Oxford:
“This is a hugely clear-sighted and compelling book, one that emphasizes brilliantly the benefits of bringing together the twin disciplines of Anglo-Saxon history and literature: if the primary focus is on the political battles over the burial-sites of the bodies of successive Anglo-Saxon kings, the entire corpus of surviving material is magisterially surveyed to mighty profit.”
Barbara Yorke, School of Humanities and Social Studies, University of Winchester:
“By looking at the treatment of royal dead and how they were manipulated as part of succession disputes, Marafioti offers a new approach to the troubled politics of the eleventh century. The King’s Body is an interesting study that makes a real contribution to knowledge.”