Anglo-Saxon, Viking & Early Medieval Europe (up to AD1000)
The period from AD 400 to 1000 throughout Europe, including Anglo-Saxon England, Vikings, Picts, and the early medieval Celtic world, as well as the Merovingian, Carolingian and Ottonian kingdoms.
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Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England [Hardback]
Richard Jones (Editor); Sarah Semple (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9781907730177
Published by : Paul Watkins
The papers in this volume explore the ways in which sense of place were forged in the Anglo-Saxon period, with perspectives taken from place-name scholars, historical geographers, archaeologists and historians. Place-names lie at ... .... Learn More -
Wales and the Britons, 350-1064 [Hardback]
T.M. Charles-Edwards (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9780198217312
Published by : Oxford University Press
This, the first volume in the History of Wales, provides a de... .... Learn More -
South Wales from the Romans to the Normans [Paperback]
Jeremy K. Knight (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781445604473
Published by : Amberley Publishing
Taking one small region as his focus Jeremy Knight traces the changes which took place from the later Roman Empire to the effects of the Norman Conquest. He surveys the principle sites of the region, analysing the transformation o... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxon Art: A New History [Paperback]
Leslie Webster (Author)
£18.99ISBN: 9780714128092
Published by : British Museum Company Ltd
This book, the first new introduction to the subject for 25 years, draws on the most up-to-date research and discoveries to explore the character, themes, motifs and styles of Anglo-Saxon art. It traces the changing nature of that art, the diff... .... Learn More -
Morality and Masculinity in the Carolingian Empire [Hardback]
Rachel Stone (Author)
£60.00ISBN: 9781107006744
Published by : Cambridge University Press
What did it mean to be a Frankish nobleman in an age of reform? How could Carolingian lay nobles maintain their masculinity and their social position, while adhering to new and stricter moral demands by reformers concerning behaviour in war, se... .... Learn More -
Old English Literature and the Old Testament [Hardback]
Michael Fox (Author); Manish Sharma (Author)
£55.99ISBN: 9780802098542
Published by : University of Toronto Press
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and intensive biblical study. Further, at least to judge from the Old English texts which su... .... Learn More -
The Conversion of Scandinavia: Vikings, Merchants and Mercenaries in the Remaking of Northern Europe [Hardback]
Anders Winroth (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9780300170269
Published by : Yale University Press
Anders Winroth argues for a radically new interpretation of the conversion of Scandinavia from paganism to Christianity in the early Middle Ages. Overturning the received narrative of Europe's military and religious conquest and colonization of... .... Learn More -
Leaders of the Anglo-Saxon Church, From Bede to Stigand [Hardback]
Alexander Rumble (Author)
£55.00ISBN: 9781843837008
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The papers in this volume illustrate the important roles played by individual leading ecclesiastics in England, both within the church and in the wider political sphere, from the late seventh to the mid eleventh century. The undeniable authorit... .... Learn More -
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The Winchester Mint and Coins and Related Finds from the Excavations of 1961-71 [Hardback]
Martin Biddle (Author)
£105.00ISBN: 9780198131724
Published by : Oxford University Press
Over three and a half centuries from the 880s to 1250, moneyers working in Winchester produced at the very least 24 million silver pennies. About five and a half thousand survive in national and local museums and private collections all over th... .... Learn More