Abstract

List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. The Politics of Royal Burial in Late Anglo-Saxon England 1. Royal Tombs and Political Performance: New Minster and Westminster 2. Tenth-century Royal Mausolea and the Power of Place 3. Funeral, Coronation, and Continuity: Political Corpses in the Eleventh Century 4. Royal Body as Executed Body: Physical Propaganda in the Reigns of Harold Harefoot and Harthacnut 5. Body and Memory: The Missing Corpse of King Edward the Martyr 6. Bodies of Conquest: Kings, Saints, and Conquerors in the Reign of Cnut 7. Conclusions: William of Normandy and the Landscape of Anglo-Saxon Royal Burial Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

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