The History Of The Anglo Saxons
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Author |
: Marc Morris |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 452 |
Release |
: 2021-05-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781643135359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 164313535X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anglo-Saxons by : Marc Morris
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 |
: Geoffrey Hindley |
Publisher |
: Hachette UK |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2013-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472107596 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472107594 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons by : Geoffrey Hindley
Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe. The society inspired by the warrior world of the Old English poem Beowulf saw England become the world's first nation state and Europe's first country to conduct affairs in its own language, and Bede and Boniface of Wessex establish the dating convention we still use today. Including all the latest research, this is a fascinating assessment of a vital historical period.
Author |
: Nicholas J. Higham |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 495 |
Release |
: 2013-06-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300125344 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300125348 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anglo-Saxon World by : Nicholas J. Higham
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.
Author |
: Jean Manco |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2020-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780500295434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0500295433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons by : Jean Manco
This ground-breaking history of the Anglo-Saxons draws on new genetic data to overturn prior assumptions about their ancestry. What do we really know of English ancestry? Combining results from cutting-edge DNA technology with new research from archaeology and linguistics, The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons reveals the adventurous journey undertaken by some of our ancestors long before a word of English was spoken. Starting with the deeper origins of the Germani and how they fit into the greater family of Indo-European speakers and ending with the language of Shakespeare, taken to the first British colony in America—with thoughts about how English became the lingua franca of the world—this chronicle takes a wider scope than previous histories. Jean Manco makes the latest genetic data—so far published only in scholarly papers—engaging and accessible to the general reader, data that have overturned the suppositions of population continuity that until recently were popular among geneticists and archaeologists. The result is an exciting new history of the English people, and an entertaining analysis of their development. Featuring illustrations and charts to explain the recent research, this is a must-have for anyone who is interested in the history of English ancestry and language.
Author |
: Thomas Benedict Lambert |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198786313 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019878631X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England by : Thomas Benedict Lambert
Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England explores English legal culture and practice across the Anglo-Saxon period, beginning with the essentially pre-Christian laws enshrined in writing by King AEthelberht of Kent in c. 600 and working forward to the Norman Conquest of 1066. It attempts to escape the traditional retrospective assumptions of legal history, focused on the late twelfth-century Common Law, and to establish a new interpretative framework for the subject, more sensitive to contemporary cultural assumptions and practical realities. The focus of the volume is on the maintenance of order: what constituted good order; what forms of wrongdoing were threatening to it; what roles kings, lords, communities, and individuals were expected to play in maintaining it; and how that worked in practice. Its core argument is that the Anglo-Saxons had a coherent, stable, and enduring legal order that lacks modern analogies: it was neither state-like nor stateless, and needs to be understood on its own terms rather than as a variant or hybrid of these models. Tom Lambert elucidates a distinctively early medieval understanding of the tension between the interests of individuals and communities, and a vision of how that tension ought to be managed that, strikingly, treats strongly libertarian and communitarian features as complementary. Potentially violent, honour-focused feuding was an integral aspect of legitimate legal practice throughout the period, but so too was fearsome punishment for forms of wrongdoing judged socially threatening. Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England charts the development of kings' involvement in law, in terms both of their authority to legislate and their ability to influence local practice, presenting a picture of increasingly ambitious and effective royal legal innovation that relied more on the cooperation of local communal assemblies than kings' sparse and patchy network of administrative officials.
Author |
: Barbara Yorke |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2002-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134707256 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134707258 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England by : Barbara Yorke
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 |
: Timothy Venning |
Publisher |
: Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2013-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781445624594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1445624591 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Kings & Queens of Anglo-Saxon England by : Timothy Venning
A major re-examination of an important period in British history
Author |
: Hazel Maskell |
Publisher |
: History of Britain |
Total Pages |
: 64 |
Release |
: 2015-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1409599663 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781409599661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anglo-Saxons and Vikings by : Hazel Maskell
Library Friendly Edition of original- A fascinating account of how Britain emerged from the Dark Ages, from bloodshed on the battlefield and kings in crisis, to monks and murder.
Author |
: Sharon Turner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 1840 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB10282114 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of the Anglo-Saxons by : Sharon Turner
Author |
: Sharon Turner |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 582 |
Release |
: 1852 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:600080693 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis The history of the Anglo-Saxons by : Sharon Turner