Edgar

Question 1

What did the law code: I Edgar do?

Answer 1

Formalised the use of the hundred as administrative unit

Question 2

What did the law code: II-III Edgar do?

Answer 2

‘God’s churches’ to be protected

Question 3

What did the law code: IV Edgar do?

Answer 3

Misfortunes = God’s will.
Improve admin efficiency = make God happy

Question 4

What did Edgar’s charters show?

Answer 4

Reunification of kingdom by 959
Peak period = 959 - 963 (no Vikings)
Religious personage took more importance, women being given land (his wife)

Question 5

What happened to the shipsoke?

Answer 5

Strengthened, Oswald given power of shipfyrd = undermining of ealdormen = allegiance to bishops?

Question 6

What happened to coinage under Edgar?

Answer 6

Single currency, design changed every 6 years, made in one location

Question 7

What monastic reforms did Edgar make?

Answer 7

Dunstan - Archbishop of Canterbury
Oswald - new monastic community
Aethelwold - Bishop of Winchester
964 - clearing out of secular clergy, building new monastries
Enlargement of Old Minister