Whos Who In Roman Britain And Anglo Saxon England

Author : Richard A. Fletcher
Publisher : Saint James Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England written by Richard A. Fletcher and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series, planned to contain eight volumes, presents a supplement to conventional history texts with biographical sketches of about a page each. The entries are arranged chronologically, with similar classes of people grouped together to facilitate research on a particular subject or event. The treatment is appropriate to general readers or undergraduate students but refers to more specific and detailed material. The subjects include political and religious leaders, intellectuals, writers, and artists. Each volume is separately indexed. (See also following entries.) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : N. J. Higham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rome, Britain and the Anglo-Saxons written by N. J. Higham and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 164313535X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxons written by Marc Morris and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.

Author : Nicholas J. Higham
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300125348
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon World written by Nicholas J. Higham and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-25 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the Anglo-Saxon period of English history from the fifth century up to the late eleventh century, covering such events as the spread of Christianity, the invasions of the Vikings, the composition of Beowulf, and the Battle of Hastings.

Author : N. J. Higham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britons in Anglo-Saxon England written by N. J. Higham and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of the British presence in Anglo-Saxon England readdressed by archaeologists, historians, linguists, and place-name specialists. The number of native Britons, and their role, in Anglo-Saxon England has been hotly debated for generations; the English were seen as Germanic in the nineteenth century, but the twentieth saw a reinvention of the German "past". Today, the scholarly community is as deeply divided as ever on the issue: place-name specialists have consistently preferred minimalist interpretations, privileging migration from Germany, while other disciplinary groups have been less united in their views, with many archaeologists and historians viewing the British presence, potentially at least, as numerically significant or even dominant. The papers collected here seek to shed new light on this complex issue, by bringing together contributions from different disciplinary specialists and exploring the interfaces between various categories of knowledge about the past. They assemble both a substantial body of evidence concerning the presence of Britons and offer a variety of approaches to the central issues of the scale of that presence and its significance across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England. NICK HIGHAM is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape History at the University of Manchester. Contributors: RICHARD COATES, MARTIN GRIMMER, HEINRICH HARKE, NICK HIGHAM, CATHERINE HILLS, LLOYD LAING, C.P. LEWIS, GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER, O.J. PADEL, DUNCANPROBERT, PETER SCHRIJVER, DAVID THORNTON, HILDEGARD L.C. TRISTRAM, DAMIAN TYLER, HOWARD WILLIAMS, ALEX WOOLF

Author : Richard A. Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England written by Richard A. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is part of an eight-volume series providing short biographies of men and women from Roman to Victorian times. Each entry places the subject in the context of their age and evokes what was distinctive and interesting about their personality and achievement.

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
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Download or read book The Celt, the Roman, and the Saxon written by Thomas Wright and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael E. Jones
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801485305
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The End of Roman Britain written by Michael E. Jones and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that contributed to the failure of the Romans, drawing on literary sources and on recent archaeological evidence.

Author : Roger Ellis
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811716406
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who's who in Victorian Britain written by Roger Ellis and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When histories, too often, have little room for the individuals who are the life and soul of the past, there is a place for a history which is composed of the lives of those who helped to make it what it was-and is." --Geoffrey Treasure, series editor. Many see the Victorian era as Britain's heyday. Certainly some of the nation's most exceptional citizens lived then, not least, of course, Queen Victoria herself. In all fields, pioneers were at work, among them Isbard Kingdom Brunel, Florence Nightingale, John Ruskin, William Morris, Sir Robert Peel, Sir John Stuart Mill, Michael Faraday, Edward Lear, and Charles Darwin. To come in the series: Who's Who in Roman Britain and Anglo-Saxon England, Who's Who in Early Medieval England, Who's Who in Late Medieval England, Who's Who in Stuart Britain, Who's Who in Early Hanoverian Britain,Who's Who in Late Hanoverian Britain

Author : Peter Hunter Blair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman Britain and Early England written by Peter Hunter Blair and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: