The Legacy of Athelstan and the New Kingdom of England

The king who founded england has largely been forgotten, even by the english. The implications of what was forged by athelstan and his dynasty more than a millennium ago have lately come to possess a renewed saliency. Perhaps we can see now, in a way that we could not even a few decades ago, just how astonishing the creation of engle londe actually was. Over the course of three generations, the royal dynasty of wessex went from near oblivion to fashioning a kingdom that still endures to day. They and alfred richly merit being commemorated as england's founding fathers, or, of course, in athel flad's case, as eng