Æthelstan

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  1. C.E. Blunt, ‘The Coinage of Athelstan, 924 – 939: A Survey,’ British Numismatic Journal 44 (1974), pp. 35 – 158.
  2. Clare Downham, ‘The Chronology of the Last Scandinavian Kings of York, AD 937 – 954,’ Northern History 40 (No. 1, 2003): 25 – 51.
  3. David N. Dumville, Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural, and Ecclesiastical Revival, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1992.
  4. Sarah Foot, Æthelstan: The First King of England, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
  5. Matthew Firth, “Constructing a King: William of Malmesbury and the Life of Æthelstan,” Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association 13 (2017), 67-90.
  6. Michael Lapidge, ‘Some Latin Poems as Evidence for the Reign of King Athelstan,’ Anglo-Saxon England 10 (1981): 61 – 98.
  7. Michael Wood, ‘The Making of King Aethelstan’s Empire: an English Charlemagne?’ In Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society, edited by Patrick Wormald, 250 – 272. Oxford: Blackwell, 1983.
  8. Michael Wood, ‘”Stand strong against the monsters”: Kingship and learning in the empire of king Æthelstan,’ in Lay Intellectuals in the Carolingian World, edited by Patrick Wormald and Janet L. Nelson, 192 – 217. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.