[PDF] The Early Anglo Saxon Kings eBook

Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 39,27 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1134707258

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Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England provides a unique survey of the six major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and their royal families, examining the most recent research in this field.

Author : D. P. Kirby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1000082865

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The Earliest English Kings is a fascinating survey of Anglo-Saxon History from the sixth century to the eighth century and the death of King Alfred. It explains and explores the 'Heptarchy' or the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, as well as the various peoples within them, wars, religion, King Offa and the coming of the Vikings. With maps and family trees, this book reveals the complex, distant and tumultuous events of Anglo-Saxon politics.

Author : Timothy Venning
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,85 MB
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445624591

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A major re-examination of an important period in British history

Author : N. J. Higham
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,94 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : 9780719044243

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This second book in the Origins of England trilogy examines the organization and make-up of Anglo-Saxon England in the early 7th century, taking as its starting point the highly rhetorical account of Britain's ecclesiastical history written by Bede.

Author : D. P. Kirby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1134548133

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First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 43,49 MB
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : History
ISBN : 164313535X

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A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.

Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 29,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN :

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This text provides an introduction to Anglo-Saxon history from the 5th century to the eve of the Norman Conquest.

Author : Tony Sullivan
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 25,84 MB
Release : 2023-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1399084186

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The book takes a new look at the archaeological and literary evidence and focuses on the fragmenting Diocese, provincial and civitas structures of post-Roman Britain. It places events in the context of increased Germanic immigration alongside evidence for significant continuation of population and land use. Using evidence from fifth century Gaul it demonstrates dynamic changes to cultural identities both within and across various groups. Covering the migration period it describes the foundation stories of Hengest and Horsa in Kent, Cerdic and Cynric, first kings of the West Saxons and Ælle founder of the kingdom of the South Saxons. Ælle is the first king Bede describes as holding imperium and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle calls Bretwalda. Covering the figures of Ceawlin, Æthelberht and Rædwald it ends with the death of Penda, the last great pagan king. As life under Roman authority faded into history we see the emergence of a ‘warband’ culture and the emergence of petty kingdoms. The mead hall replaced crumbling villas and towns as the center of social life. These halls rang with the poems of bards and the stories of great warriors and battles. Arthur and Urien of Rheged. The famous Mons Badonicus and the doomed charge of the Gododdin at Catraeth. A chapter on weapons, armor, warfare and accounts of contemporary battles will help paint a picture of dark age warfare. From the arrival of Saxon mercenaries in the fifth century to the death of Penda, the last pagan king, at Winwaed in 655.