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Anglo-Saxon History

Arthurian Sources Volume 6: Studies in Dark-Age History
by John Morris
When the late Dr. Morris wrote The Age of Arthur he expected that it would soon be complemented by nine volumes of Arthurian Period Sources providing the evidential foundation upon which his narrative history of sub-Roman Britain rested. They were to provide the reader with material permitting direct evaluation of the problems faced by historians studying British and Irish events of the 4th to the 7th centuries. He died leaving three volumes ...
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Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 11
edited by David Griffiths
This 11th volume is published as a tribute to Sonia Hawkes (one of the founding editors). Contents: Anglo-Saxon cemetery of Bifrons, East Kent (Sonia Hawkes); British mammals in Old English poetry (A L Meaney); Anglo-Saxon takeover of the west Midlands (S Bassett); Clofesho revisted (K Bailey); Penitential literature and secular law (C Hough); Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Tallington, Lincolnshire (J Albone and K Leahy); Athelstan's urban reforms (D ...
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Anglo-Saxon Studies, Vol 6
Filmer-Sankey, William
Twelve papers based on an Oxford conference summarising the current state of historical, archaeological and place-name studies for the Early AS period. 148p with illus. (OUCA 1993)
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Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History Volume 17
edited by Helena Hamerow
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary forum which allows for a diversity of approaches and subject matter. Contributions focus not just on Anglo-Saxon England but also its international context. Volume 17 ...
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The Life and Times of Godwine, Earl of Wessex
by Hubert Grills
Godwine was an independent-minded, dominant and courageous man who held much political and military power. Mediaeval kings relied on men like Godwine for support and for the execution of their policies. When the interests of the king and his leading men coincided, the country could enjoy an effective administration; when these interests conflicted, ruinous and unnecessary strife resulted and it was by no means certain that the authority of the ...
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English Sea Power, 871-100 AD
by John Pullen-Appleby
This work examines the largely untold story of English sea power prior to the Norman Conquest. The author illuminates the much-neglected period 871 to 1100, an age when English rulers deployed naval resources, first against Norse Invaders, and later as an instrument of state in relations with neighbouring countries. The author has gathered together information about the appearance and use of fighting ships during the period. 138p, 10 maps and ...
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Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain
Edited by Lapidge, Michael
This volume gathers together obituaries of 28 members of the British Academy who `transformed our knowledge of all aspects of the culture - philological, literary, palaeographical, archaeological, art-historical - of early medieval Britain' during the late 19th and 20th centuries. Scholars include Whitly Stokes, Sir John Rhys, Arthur Simpson Napier, Sir Israel Gollancz, Hector Munro Chadwick, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Ifor ...
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Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King
by Ian W Walker
Harold Godwinson rose from relative obscurity to ascend to the throne and his death at the battle of Hastings ushered in the Conquest. Originally published in 1997, this study examines in detail his career and reassesses the evidence contained in contemporary sources for his rise to power, his short reign as king and the events which brought it to a close. 258p, 10 col bls, 51 b/w figs, 10 maps (Sutton 1997, new edn 2000)

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The World of Bede
by Peter Hunter Blair
`The most striking feature of The World of Bede', writes Michael Lapidge in the foreward to this reprint, `is that it is based almost entirely on its author's reading in the primary sources ......(his) arguments are as fresh and relevant as they were twenty years ago.' An accessible introduction to the writings and intellectual development of Bede. 342p (Cambridge UP 1970/1990)

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The Reign of Æthelred II, King of the English, Emperor of all the Peoples of Britain, 978-1016
by Ian Howard
King Æthelred II (978-1016), known as the Unready, is a relatively unknown English monarch. The exploration of Æthelreds reign in this volume complements a study undertaken by the author in an earlier book about the Scandinavian invasions of ...
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