Aethelstan, Eamont, and the Politics of the Irish Sea World' Dr Charles Insley

While much attention focuses on the Eamont meeting as setting the seal on the creation of the 'kingdom of the English', that meeting also had profound implications for the geopolitics of the Irish Sea. The establishment of English claims to rule over the kingdom of the Northumbrians reorientated the political dynamics of the previous half century. In 919 the Northumbrians and the Scots had fought together against the Dublin Norse, but less than a generation later, the Scots and the Dubliners found themselves as allies. This paper explores the rapidly shifting politics that turned foes into allies by the late 930s/940s.Dr Charles Insley has been a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Manchester since 2012, having held posts at Canterbury Christ Church, Northampton and Bangor Universities since 1995. He was head of the History Department at Manchester between 2018 and 2021.
Charles Insley studied for his undergraduate and doctoral degrees at the University of Oxford, receiving his doctorate in 1998 for a thesis on the pre-Norman Conquest archive of Exeter Cathedral. His first post was at Bangor University, on a project (with Professor Huw Pryce) to edit the surviving Acta of the Welsh Princes (1137-1283), which was published in 2005. He is a historian of the Atlantic Archipelago in the earlier Middle Ages, ca. 800-1100 and has published widely on aspects of English and Welsh history during that period. His current interests centre on a comparative study of queens and elite women in the Atlantic Archipelago during the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries.1HVisit https://www.eamont927.co.uk/ for full information on the weekend event