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Anglo-Saxon History

Arthurian Sources Volume 6: Studies in Dark-Age History
by John Morris
8 essays in which Morris sets out some of the detailed textual analysis behind his controversial reconstruction of Athurian age Britain. 186p (Phillimore 1995)
Hardback. Price GB £19.95

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) and it begins with her own reassessment of the important cemetery at Bifrons in Kent. 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 ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £30.00, Our Price GB £5.00

Aethelstan: The First King of England
by Sarah Foot
In this nuanced portrait of Athelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written. She traces his life through the various spheres in which he lived and worked, beginning with the intimate context of his family, then extending outward to his unusual multi-ethnic royal court, the Church and his kingdom, the wars he conducted, and finally his death and legacy. Foot describes a sophisticated man who was not only a great ...
Hardback. Price GB £30.00

Anglo-Saxon England, 400-790
by Sally Crawford
Magnificently illustrated, this is a concise exploration of daily life in earlier Anglo-Saxon England from the end of Rome to the first Viking raids. Drawing in the main on archaeological evidence Sally Crawford looks at the importance of family groupings, houses and the organisation of space, at agriculture and industry and the growing importance of trade and the re-emergence of towns, as well as at education, religion and leisure time. 72p ...
Paperback. Price GB £8.99

The Anglo-Saxon Kings
by Timothy Venning
This is a reign by reign history of Anglo-Saxon England, which takes in all of the various kingdoms which emerged after the end of Roman rule. This sort of approach could easily prove disastrous, given the scant and unreliable nature of our sources, particularly for the earlier part of the Saxon era, but Venning is quick to point out the limits of our knowledge, where that knowledge comes from and how debates as to its veracity currently stand. ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.99

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 ...
Paperback. Price GB £50.00

Early Medieval Northumbria: Kingdoms and Communities, 450-1100
edited by David Petts and Sam Turner
Essays on the powerful early medieval kingdom of Northumbria. Where traditional scholarship has centred on the ecclesiastical high culture of the age of Bede, this work examines the kingdoms social and economic life and its origins and decline as well. There is a stress on approaching established bodies of material from new perspectives and engaging with wider debates in the field, including monumentality, the development of kingships, and the ...
Hardback. Price GB £120.00

England and the Continent in the Tenth Century
edited by David Rollason, Conrad Leyser and Hannah Williams
The result of collaboration between English and continental universities, these essays tackle a broad range of questions: What routeways and modes of contact linked England with the Continent? How similar were attitudes to rulership and dynastic strategies? How did the law, the working of government, and the organization and culture of the church differ between England and the Continent? How was the past seen and represented on the two sides of ...
Hardback. Price GB £120.00

The Old English Version of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica
by Sharon M. Rowley
The Old English version of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis anglorum is one of the earliest and most substantial surviving works of Old English prose. Translated anonymously around the end of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century, the text, which is substantially shorter than Bede's original, was well known and actively used in medieval England, and was highly influential. In this first book on the subject, the author places the work in ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

A Companion to Bede
by George Hardin Brown
This survey of Bede's life and works, aims both to elucidate the context in which Bede wrote and to serve as a reference guide to the many works in a variety of genres which survive. An introductory chapter sets out what we know of Bede's own life and his monastery of Wearmouth. The bulk of the book however is dedicated to summaries and analyses of Bede's many works, organised into sectoins by genre - educational works, Biblical commentaries, ...
Paperback. Price GB £17.99
Hardback. Price GB £45.00