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The Eadwine Psalter, previously known as the Canterbury Psalter, is an illuminated manuscript produced in England in the twelfth century. It was written on calf vellum, and illustrated at Canterbury circa 1155-60, with additions circa 1160-70.<br/><br/> It was kept at the Cathedral Priory of Christ Church, Canterbury through most of the Middle Ages.
Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899), was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.<br/><br/> Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is one of only two English monarchs to be given the epithet 'the Great', the other being the Scandinavian Cnut the Great. He was also the first King of the West Saxons to style himself 'King of the Anglo-Saxons'. Details of Alfred's life are described in a work by the 10th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.
Henry of Huntingdon (c. 1088 – c. 1157), the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th-century English historian who served as archdeacon of Huntingdon. The few details of Henry's life that are known originated from his own works and from a number of official records. He was brought up in the wealthy court of Robert Bloet of Lincoln, who became his patron.<br/><br/> At the request of Bloet's successor, Alexander of Lincoln, Henry began to write his Historia Anglorum, first published around 1129, an account of the history of England from its beginnings up to the year 1154.
Edward the Confessor(1003 – 5 January 1066), also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England, and usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, ruling from 1042 to 1066.<br/><br/> Between 1042 and 1052 Edward the Confessor began rebuilding St Peter's Abbey in London to provide himself with a royal burial church. It was the first church in England built in the Romanesque style. The building was not completed until around 1090 but was consecrated on 28 December 1065.<br/><br/> The only extant depiction of Edward's abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is found in the Bayeux Tapestry.
The Libellus de primo Saxonum uel Normannorum adventu, located in a 12th-century manuscript (London, British Library Cotton Caligula A. viii) and often attributed to Symeon of Durham, contains an illustration of Odin as Woden, crowned as ancestral king of the Anglo-Saxons.<br/><br/> The text surrounding the illustration describes the royal lineages of the kingdoms of Kent, Mercia, Deira, Bernicia and Wessex respectively, each claiming descent and the right to rule from this legendary figure.
Alfred the Great (849 – 26 October 899), was King of Wessex from 871 to 899.<br/><br/> Alfred successfully defended his kingdom against the Viking attempt at conquest, and by the time of his death had become the dominant ruler in England. He is one of only two English monarchs to be given the epithet 'the Great', the other being the Scandinavian Cnut the Great. He was also the first King of the West Saxons to style himself 'King of the Anglo-Saxons'. Details of Alfred's life are described in a work by the 10th-century Welsh scholar and bishop Asser.