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  • A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons

    by Henrietta Leyser ...
    Series series Short Histories
    'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defeated by Viking raiders in 991, emerge from a diverse literature – including Beowulf and Bede's Ecclesiastical History – produced by the peoples known as the Anglo-Saxons: Germanic tribes who migrated to Britain from Lower ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • Christina of Markyate

    Edited by Samuel Fanous, Henrietta Leyser ...
    Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser present a vivid interdisciplinary study devoted to the life, work and extant vita of Christina of Markyate, which draws on research from a wide range of disciplines.This fascinating and comprehensive collection surveys the life of an extraordinary medieval woman. Christina of Markyate made a vow of chastity at an early age, against the wishes of her parents who ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Beda

    A Journey to the Seven Kingdoms at the Time of Bede

    by Henrietta Leyser ...
    Written by the Oxford historian Henrietta Leyser, BEDA is a gazetteer to the remaining Anglo-Saxon ruins in England, many of them from the time of the Venerable Bede. For those who have bought Simon Jenkins' 100 Best Churches and now want something different, this is an invaluable window onto the world of the author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People.Concentrating on Bede himself ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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  • Foundation

    The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 1 - The History of England
    The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion.In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Anglo-Saxons

    A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066

    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Crown and Country

    A History of England through the Monarchy

    by David Starkey ...
    An exploration of the British monarchy from the retreat of the Romans up until the modern day. This compendium volume of two earlier books is fully revised and updated.The monarchy is one of Britain’s longest surviving institutions – as well as one of its most tumultuous and revered. In this masterful book, David Starkey looks at the monarchy as a whole, charting its history from Roman times, to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • In Search of the Dark Ages

    by Michael Wood ...
    Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066.In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

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  • The King in the North

    The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria

    by Max Adams ...
    Series series The Founders of Britain Quartet
    'A triumph – a Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' TOM HOLLAND.The magisterial biography of Oswald Whiteblade, exiled prince of Northumbria, who returned in blood and glory to reclaim his birthright.A charismatic leader, a warrior whose prowess in battle earned him the epithet Whiteblade, an exiled prince who returned to claim his birthright, the inspiration for Tolkein's Aragorn.Oswald of ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

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  • Women of Power in Anglo-Saxon England

    by Annie Whitehead ...
    The little-known lives of women who ruled, schemed, and made peace and war, between the seventh and eleventh centuries: "Meticulously researched." —Catherine Hanley, author of Matilda: Empress, Queen, WarriorMany Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. Æthelred the Unready is one—but less is written about his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one of her sons over the others, or about his ... Read more

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  • A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons

    by Geoffrey Hindley ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Anglo-Saxon World

    by Nicholas Higham, M. J. Ryan ...
    The Anglo-Saxon period, stretching from the fifth to the late eleventh century, begins with the Roman retreat from the Western world and ends with the Norman takeover of England. Between these epochal events, many of the contours and patterns of English life that would endure for the next millennium were shaped. In this authoritative work, N. J. Higham and M. J. Ryan reexamine Anglo-Saxon England ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • A Freemason's Guide to the Knights Templar in Scotland

    by James ...
    In recent years there have been many bookswritten on the part that the Order of the Temple(Knights Templar) may have played in thefounding of Freemasonry.Some of these books have been fanciful in theextreme, others have put forward some reasonablearguments. This book does not dispute any of those arguments, but puts forward the facts as they are known in the written record. ... Read more

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