Becoming an Anglo-Saxon King
Gone Medieval
History Hit
4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Throughout April, Gone Medieval is your perfect companion for the forthcoming coronation of King Charles III. In this episode, Dr. Cat Jarman asks what did kingship really mean in the first half of the medieval period? How and when did we start to have kings in what later was to become England? And what was the actual significance of a coronation? All these questions and more are explored with Dr. Levi Roach, a specialist in Early Medieval kingship.
This episode was edited by Pete Dennis and produced by Rob Weinberg.
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| 0:30.4 | Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit. I'm Doctor Cat Jarvan. |
| 0:35.6 | This month we are talking about kings and coronations here on the podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | But when we go back to the first half of the medieval period, what did kingship really mean? |
| 0:46.6 | How and when did we start to have kings in what later was to become England? And how did the |
| 0:52.5 | numerous smaller kingdoms begin to merge? What was the actual significance of a coronation? |
| 0:59.7 | Today, my guest is Levi Roach, who is associate professor in history at the University of Exeter. |
| 1:11.5 | Levi, thank you so much for joining me today and welcome to Gone Medieval. |
| 1:15.6 | Good to be here. So I'm really delighted that I could talk to you about this because I know that |
| 1:20.0 | you're very much specialising in kingship really, early kingship and early medieval period. |
| 1:25.6 | So I hope that today we can really sort of pick your brains a little bit about some of this |
| 1:30.7 | and this sort of concept of being a king, becoming a king, how we get to coronation events and all |
| 1:37.2 | of that because we don't really have that much from the very early period in terms of the written |
| 1:43.1 | records of things like coronations, is that right? Yes, that's very much true and indeed kingship |
| 1:48.6 | as a whole in a sense comes into our sources almost partially formed and then we can start seeing |
| 1:56.1 | it as it evolves and develops throughout the early Middle Ages. So as our written sources get richer |
| 2:02.4 | with the Christianisation of England, we're seeing an institution that already exists but is |
| 2:06.8 | changing in certain respects quite rapidly and continues to change and evolve till we get to that |
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