{"product_id":"saint-edward-the-confessor-the-last-saxon-saint-and-the-fall-of-a-kingdom-9798196276415","title":"Saint Edward the Confessor: The Last Saxon Saint and the Fall of a Kingdom","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Joseph Everly\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Medieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe built God's house. He could not save his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne man. One crown. One prophecy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne kingdom lost forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward was the last king of Saxon England - and the last man who wanted the throne. Exiled as a boy, crowned as a pawn, married to the daughter of the man who murdered his brother, he ruled a land he could not hold and loved a God who asked him to let it go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Norman dukes sharpened their swords and his own court plotted his fall, Edward did the unthinkable: he knelt. He fed lepers. He forgave traitors. He poured his kingdom's gold into stone and prayer, raising Westminster Abbey as the wolves circled.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Christmas Day, 1065, as his great church was consecrated, he saw the future in a fever dream - a green tree cut in two, England drowning in blood, and a shoot rising from the stump. Eight days later, he was dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine months after that, his crown was in the mud at Hastings. His kingdom was gone. His line was extinct.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy every measure of kings, Edward the Confessor was a failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet a thousand years later, the Normans are dust. The Conqueror's castles are ruins. The Domesday Book is a relic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the abbey stands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the man who lost everything is the only English king the Church ever called a saint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe lost a kingdom. He gained a halo. Which mattered more?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSweeping from the exile's road to the deathbed prophecy, from the leper's touch to the arrow at Hastings, from the silence of a king to the roar of a cult built by monks, widows, and peasants, The Confessor is the mind-blowing true story of power and prayer, failure and faith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt asks the question every age must answer: When the wolves are at the door, do you reach for a sword... or do you build an altar?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of The Pillars of the Earth and The Last Kingdom, this is the forgotten story of the king who chose heaven over heirs - and changed England forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis England wasn't a place. It was a prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the prayer remains.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892853620887,"sku":"9798196276415","price":1081.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798196276415.webp?v=1781189441","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/saint-edward-the-confessor-the-last-saxon-saint-and-the-fall-of-a-kingdom-9798196276415","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}