Chester's earliest regatta? Edgar's Dee-rowing revisited
Julia Barrow
The meeting of the kings Britain and Isles at Chester in 973 has usually been interpreted as a submission ritual. object this paper is to explore an alternative explanation, that ritual involved was egalitarian one type commonly used Roman world, subsequently by parties desiring make peace treaties. Such meetings often took place on rivers, especially those marking borders, they were regarded neutral. location Dee examined from viewpoint. Finally looks whether sources for Dee-rowing present event display overlordship Edgar, comes conclusion version events developed among Benedictine writers c.1000 onwards, give lustre ruler who had done most establish monasticism England.
Early Medieval Europe