Author : D. P. Kirby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2020-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1000082865
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 : D. P. Kirby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1134548133
First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Great Britain
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 32,37 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1134707258
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 : Great Britain
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,77 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 147211731X
Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the British Isles - even royals we think most familiar are revealed in a new and sometimes surprising light. This revised and shortened edition of The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens includes biographies of the royals of recorded British history, plus an overview of the semi-legendary figures of pre-history and the Dark Ages - an accessible source for students and general readers.
Author : William (of Malmesbury)
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Miles Russell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 20,44 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445662752
A fresh look at the text which introduced for the first time some of the key figures in British myth and legend.
Author : David W. Burchmore
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Britons
ISBN : 9780674241367
Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain--the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and life of King Arthur--was widely read during the Middle Ages. This volume presents the first English translation of what may have been his source, the anonymous First Variant Version, attested in just a handful of manuscripts.
Author : Henry (of Huntingdon)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 10,90 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192840752
Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and the establishment of Norman rule. His accounts of the kings who reigned during his lifetime--William II, Henry I, and Stephen--contain unique descriptions of people and events. Henry tells how promiscuity, greed, treachery, and cruelty produced a series of disasters, rebellions, and wars. Interwoven with memorable and vivid battle-scenes are anecdotes of court life, the death and murder of nobles, and the first written record of Cnut and the waves and the death of Henry I from a surfeit of lampreys. Diana Greenway's translation of her definitive Latin text has been revised for this edition.
