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The Rise and Fall of the Anglo-Saxon Autocracy THE RISE AND FALL OF THE ANGLO-SAXON AUTOCRACY Vladimir Moss © Copyright: Vladimir Moss, 2018. All Rights Reserved. 1 2 FOREWORD 5 INTRODUCTION. BRITAIN AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE 8 1. THE CONVERSION OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND 23 2. THE SCHOOL OF YORK 30 3. KING OFFA OF MERCIA 35 4. CHARLEMAGNE, ROME AND CONSTANTINOPLE 40 5. FROM MERCIA TO WESSEX 47 6. MARTYR-KING EDMUND OF EAST ANGLIA 54 7. KING ALFRED THE GREAT, THE ENGLISH DAVID 61 8. KING ALFRED THE GREAT, THE ENGLISH SOLOMON 67 9. ATHELSTAN, CONQUEROR OF THE NORTH 73 10. ST. DUNSTAN AND THE MONASTIC REVIVAL 79 11. THE ANTI-MONASTIC REACTION 99 12. THE RETURN OF THE NORTHMEN 107 13. THE VENGEANCE OF ST. EDMUND 123 14. THE YEAR OF THE THREE KINGS 128 15. CNUT, ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT 132 16. KING CNUT AND OLAF THE SAINT 137 17. THE MURDER OF PRINCE ALFRED 142 18. KING EDWARD THE CONFESSOR (1) 144 19. THE SCHISM OF 1054 AND THE NORMANS 149 20. KING EDWARD THE CONFESSOR (2) 156 21. KING HAROLD AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST 171 22. THE HARROWING OF THE NORTH 188 23. THE ECCLESIASTICAL REBELS 197 24. THE SURVIVAL OF ENGLISHNESS 215 CONCLUSION. THE ANGLO-SAXON AUTOCRACY 231 3 APPENDIX 1. THE FLOWERING BRANCH 237 APPENDIX 2. HIEROMARTYRS AETHELRIC AND AETHELWINE, BISHOPS OF DURHAM 247 4 FOREWORD In her work on the battle of Hastings in 1066, the historian Harriet Harvey Wood writes that the battle “wiped out overnight a civilisation that, for its wealth, its political arrangements, its arts, its literature and its longevity, was unique in Dark Age Europe, and deserves celebration. In the general instability, lawlessness and savagery of the times, Anglo-Saxon England stood out as a beacon.”1 This work proposes to examine the “political arrangements” of this great and still little-known civilization, and in particular its keystone, the Anglo-Saxon, or English Orthodox autocracy. Why “Orthodox”, and why “autocracy”? The answer to these questions will become clearer in the course of this book, but here we can say briefly the following. First, Anglo-Saxon England was “Orthodox”, because her faith differed in no way from the faith of Eastern Orthodoxy, while the fall of Anglo-Saxon England in 1066 coincided with the introduction of the new faith of Roman Catholicism. For in 1054 the Roman papacy and Eastern Orthodoxy had anathematized each other, creating the schism that persists to this day. And when he conquered England, William the Conqueror showed, by his violence to the old faith and faithfulness to the new “reformed” papacy, that he was Roman Catholic rather than Orthodox. Secondly, Anglo-Saxon England’s governmental structure was neither despotism of the Roman kind, nor “armed democracy” of the Saxon kind, nor even an embryonic constitutional monarchy of the modern English type, but “autocratic”. In other words, it was of the type found in Orthodox Eastern Europe, being based on the idea of the “symphony of powers” formulated by the Emperor Justinian. This ideal of a harmony, or “symphony”, between the religious and political leadership of a people, and with the people itself, has been rarely realized in history. Still rarer has been the realization of a Christian symphony of powers, in which the people and its religious and political leaders have been united with each other and with the true God, Jesus Christ, through a common confession of the true faith and an agreement on how to confess that faith in the world. We can count such rare moments on the fingers of one hand: the Byzantine Macedonian dynasty from the ninth to the eleventh centuries; the Georgian Bagratid dynasty from the eleventh to the thirteenth centuries; the Serbian Nemanja dynasty from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries; the Kievan Riurik dynasty from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, resurrected from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries; and the Muscovite Romanov dynasty in the seventeenth century. All of these dynasties belonged to the Eastern Orthodox tradition. But perhaps the most perfect – and certainly the least well-known – example of the attainment of “symphony” comes from Western Orthodoxy: the English Orthodox kingdom founded by King Alfred the Great in the ninth century and brought to a bloody end by William the 1 Wood, The Battle of Hastings: the Fall of Anglo-Saxon England, London: Atlantic, 2008, p. 2. 5 Conqueror two hundred years later, in 1066. This book studies the rise and fall of this kingdom, beginning with the Romano- Celtic-Germanic beginnings of British statehood, and with the seven forerunners of the All-English kingdom formed at the coming of the Roman missionaries to England in the year 597. We shall trace the struggle to attain symphony first on a provincial level, that of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in different parts of England in the seventh century; then the failed attempts to attain national unity under this or that provincial king in the eighth and the first half of the ninth centuries, culminating in the near-destruction of the whole of English Orthodox civilization by the Vikings; then the attainment of national unity under King Alfred, and the partial inclusion of the non-English races of Britain, the Celts and the Danes, into this unity by Alfred’s successors, especially Athelstan, up to the time of King Edgar the Peaceable; then the destruction of this unity by the second wave of Viking invasions, and its resurrection under the Anglo-Danish monarchy of King Cnut; and finally the fall of the English Orthodox kingdom to what we may call the third Viking wave, that of the Normans, in 1066, with the consequences of the Norman-Papist Conquest for the English people and Western Christian civilization in general. It is hoped that this study of the origins, rise and fall of the English Orthodox kingdom will be of interest and profit not only to those Englishmen who seek to rediscover their country’s heritage before it was torn away from the One, Holy, Orthodox-Catholic and Apostolic Church in the eleventh century. May it also help Orthodox Christians of other nations to rediscover the ideal of Romanitas (in Latin) or Romeiosyne (in Greek) – that is, the ideal of symphonic harmony between all the spiritual, political and cultural forces of a nation, or family of nations, under the banner of the Orthodox Christian Faith. For “without a vision the people fails” – and the people has never been in greater need of this vision, so wonderfully realized in the English Orthodox kingdom in the so-called “Dark Ages”, in order to reignite its faith in the twenty-first century. My debts are very many, and will be enumerated as fully as possible in the footnotes. I should like to make particular mention of E.A. Freeman, the nineteenth- century historian who in his massive work on the Norman Conquest first began – dimly, but truly – to see the full significance of 1066 for the English national consciousness; Sir Frank Stenton, whose Anglo-Saxon England, is still the best one- volume introduction to the subject; David Starkey, the distinguished historian and expert on British monarchism, whose ideas on the Anglo-Saxon monarchy I have found interesting and fruitful, even if I do not completely agree with them; Robert Tombs, whose The English and Their History is, in my view, the best one-volume history of England in existence, and Fr. Andrew Phillips, whose pioneering work on the relationship between Anglo-Saxon England and Eastern Orthodoxy has been an inspiration to me. 6 It goes without saying that I, and I alone, am responsible for any mistakes or misconceptions that still find themselves in the text. Through the prayers of our holy Fathers, and especially of all the saints of the British Isles, Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on us! December 3/16, 2018 St. Birinus, Apostle of Wessex. 7 INTRODUCTION. BRITAIN AND THE ROMAN EMPIRE David Starkey begins his history of the British and English monarchies, somewhat unexpectedly, with - Rome, “with the Roman invasions and occupation of Britain. I do so for two reasons. The first is that the great Anglo-Saxon historian Bede, who, more than anyone else, invented the idea of England, thought that this was the right place to start his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. The second is that Rome is indeed ‘our common mother’ and is the fount from which all modern western European countries spring. “But, in the case of England, Rome is at least a stepmother. There is, uniquely in the Western Empire, an absolute rupture between the Roman province of Britannia and the eventual successor-state of Anglo-Saxon England. Elsewhere, in France, Italy or Spain, there are continuities of language, laws, government and religion. In Britain there are none [except religion, in the West especially]. Instead the Anglo- Saxon invaders of the fifth century found, or perhaps made, a tabula rasa. “This is normally regretted. Civilization was destroyed, the common story goes, and the Dark Ages began. I am not so sure. For Rome was not civilized as we think and the Dark Ages – at least in Anglo-Saxon England – were by no means so gloomy. The roots of the misunderstanding, I think, lie in the importance we attach to material culture. We too live in a comfortable age, so we are impressed – too impressed – with the apparatus of Roman comfort: the baths, the sanitation, the running water, the central heating and the roads. “All these are, indeed, very sophisticated. But the politics that underpinned them was surprisingly crude. Not only was the Empire a mere military despotism, it was also peculiarly mistrustful of any kind of self-help, much less self-government, on the part of its subjects.
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