| Author | : Ian W. Walker |
| Publisher | : Sutton Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Anglo-Saxons |
| ISBN | : 9780750921312 |
This pioneering book re-examines the events of the mid-eighth to the mid-tenth centuries to provide a completely fresh and more balanced account of the period.
| Author | : Tom Holland |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2016-06-30 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0241187826 |
The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and was hailed as Rex totius Britanniae: 'King of the whole of Britain'. Tom Holland recounts this extraordinary story with relish and drama, transporting us back to a time of omens, raven harbingers and blood-red battlefields. As well as giving form to the figure of Athelstan - devout, shrewd, all too aware of the precarious nature of his power, especially in the north - he introduces the great figures of the age, including Alfred and his daughter Aethelflaed, 'Lady of the Mercians', who brought Athelstan up at the Mercian court. Making sense of the family rivalries and fractious conflicts of the Anglo-Saxon rulers, Holland shows us how a royal dynasty rescued their kingdom from near-oblivion and fashioned a nation that endures to this day.
| Author | : Annie Whitehead |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 459 |
| Release | : 2018-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1445676532 |
The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was pivotal in the story of England.
| Author | : Toby Purser |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 511 |
| Release | : 2022-11-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1398105074 |
'The Making of England' seeks to challenge the established narrative of the inevitable rise of the unified Christian state. England was not exceptional in its governance, parliaments, religion or monarchy: it was a European state.
| Author | : Timothy Venning |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2013-01-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1445624591 |
A major re-examination of an important period in British history
| Author | : Mark Atherton |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 2017-01-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1786731541 |
During the tenth century England began to emerge as a distinct country with an identity that was both part of yet separate from 'Christendom'. The reigns of Athelstan, Edgar and Ethelred witnessed the emergence of many key institutions: the formation of towns on modern street plans; an efficient administration; and a serviceable system of tax. Mark Atherton here shows how the stories, legends, biographies and chronicles of Anglo-Saxon England reflected both this exciting time of innovation as well as the myriad lives, loves and hates of the people who wrote them. He demonstrates, too, that this was a nation coming of age, ahead of its time in its use not of the Book-Latin used elsewhere in Europe, but of a narrative Old English prose devised for law and practical governance of the nation-state, for prayer and preaching, and above all for exploring a rich and daring new literature. This prose was unique, but until now it has been neglected for the poetry. Bringing a volatile age to vivid and muscular life, Atherton argues that it was the vernacular of Alfred the Great, as much as Viking war, that truly forged the nation.
| Author | : Richard Huscroft |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2018-07-11 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0429893175 |
Making England, 796–1042 explores the creation and establishment of the kingdom of England and the significant changes that led to it becoming one of the most successful and sophisticated political structures in the western world by the middle of the eleventh century. At the end of the eighth century when King Offa of Mercia died, England was a long way from being a single kingdom ruled by a single king. This book examines how and why the kingdom of England formed in the way it did and charts the growth of royal power over the following two and a half centuries. Key political and military events are introduced alongside developments within government, the law, the church and wider social and economic changes to provide a detailed picture of England throughout this period. This is also set against a wider European context to demonstrate the influence of external forces on England’s development. With a focus on England’s rulers and elites, Making England, 796–1042 uncovers the type of kingdom England was and analyses its strengths and weaknesses as well as the emerging concept of a specifically English nation. Arranged both chronologically and thematically, and containing a selection of maps and genealogies, it is the ideal introducion to this subject for students of medieval history and of medieval England in particular.
