Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Rædwald’s Unhappy Realm: Bede’s Mixed Views of East Anglian Imperium

2. Æthelthryth in a Virgin Wilderness

3. Solace for a Client-King: Felix’s Vita sancti Guthlaci

4. Made in Wessex: Danish East Anglia and the Alfredian Court

5. Edmund, East Anglia, England

Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography

About the Author

Joseph Grossi is an associate professor in the Department of English and the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies at the University of Victoria.

Reviews

"Grossi’s wide-ranging and at times whimsical book will encourage readers to revisit familiar texts in search of unsuspected meanings…Reading it prompts all manner of new questions." - Richard Purkiss, Oxford (Early Medieval Europe)