Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England

Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Barbara Yorke

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-11

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 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.


The Earliest English Kings

The Earliest English Kings

Author: D. P. Kirby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-03-25

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 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.


The Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons

Author: Marc Morris

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-05-25

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 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.


The Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons

Author: Barbara Yorke

Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13:

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


The Anglo-Saxon World

The Anglo-Saxon World

Author: Nicholas J. Higham

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2013-06-25

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 0300125348

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Presents the Anglo-Saxon period of English history from the fifth century up to the late eleventh century, covering such events as the spread of Christianity, the invasions of the Vikings, the composition of Beowulf, and the Battle of Hastings.


Early Medieval Britain

Early Medieval Britain

Author: Pam J. Crabtree

Publisher:

Published: 2018-06-07

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0521885949

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Traces the development of towns in Britain from late Roman times to the end of the Anglo-Saxon period using archaeological data.


Harold

Harold

Author: Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton

Publisher:

Published: 1853

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Writing, Kingship, and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Rory Naismith

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1107160979

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This book brings together new research that represents current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to the eleventh century, the chapters in this volume offer fresh approaches to a wide range of linguistic, historical, legal, diplomatic and palaeographical evidence.


The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings

The Early Anglo-Saxon Kings

Author: Tony Sullivan

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2023-03-09

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1399084208

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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.