About the lecture

In this module, we think about the reign of Edward the Confessor, focusing particular on his succession in 1042, the crisis of 1051-2, and the relatively peaceful period that followed.

About the lecturer

David Bates in Professorial Fellow in the Department of History at the University of East Anglia, specialising in English and French history in the period from the tenth century to the thirteenth century. His recent publications include Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum: The Acta of William I, 1066–1087 (1998), The Normans and Empire (2013), and William the Conqueror (2016).