The Earliest English Kings is a fascinating survey of Anglo-Saxon History from the sixth century to the eighth century and the death of King Alfred. It explains and explores the 'Heptarchy' or the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, as well as the various peoples within them, wars, religion, King Offa and the coming of the Vikings. With maps and family trees, this book reveals the complex, distant and tumultuous events of Anglo-Saxon politics.
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"...Provides in a readable and accessible form a political history of the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to the death of Alfred.." -- Medieval History
"A good example of scholarship presented in an accessible and intellectually stimulating way.." -- ITeaching History
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Kirby |f David held a personal chair in History at the University of Whales, Aberystwyth and is now retired. He is the author of The Making of Early England and is co-author of A Bibliographical Dictionary of Dark Age Britain
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I must note that the poor rating has little to do with the author and everything to do with the poor quality of this Kindle edition.This Kindle ebook costs $31.56 to buy and yet all the images, figures, tables and illustrations in the book are useless due to the fact they are too small and blur when zoomed in. The Appendix in the kindle edition becomes a tasteless joke with all figures with the descents and genealogies rendered useless. Then the notes in the book don't link to their respective notes section. I was stupid in thinking that my inability to access the images and the lack of linking for the notes were restrictions the sample carried - and that those would be gone once I purchased the book. I'm disappointed and frustrated.
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A most detailed reference book. If your interest is Anglo saxon history, this has to be in your library. The author has done an enormous amount of research. I would be amazed if this were not a prescribe text book for any organised study of Anglo-Saxon history course.
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In 865, following over half a century of Viking raiding activity, what contemporaries came to call the 'great heathen army' landed in East Anglia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regnal tradition, regnal chronology, regnal length, regnal list, great heathen army, papae registrum epistolarum, royal genealogies, genealogical tradition, pagan reaction, annals record, second reign, northern king, royal saints, metropolitan see Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Saxon, Anglo-Saxon England, Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, East Angles, East Saxons, East Anglia, Epistolae Karol, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Life of King, Pope Gregory, Sutton Hoo, Tribal Hidage, Medieval European Coinage, Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica, Die Synoden Englands, Roman Britain, Charles the Bald, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, English Historical Review, Anglo-Saxon Church, British Isles, Flores Historiarum, Middle Anglia, Historia Brittonum, Florentii Wigorniensis New!
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In 865, following over half a century of Viking raiding activity, what contemporaries came to call the 'great heathen army' landed in East Anglia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
regnal tradition, regnal chronology, regnal length, regnal list, great heathen army, papae registrum epistolarum, royal genealogies, genealogical tradition, pagan reaction, annals record, second reign, northern king, royal saints, metropolitan see Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West Saxon, Anglo-Saxon England, Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, East Angles, East Saxons, East Anglia, Epistolae Karol, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Life of King, Pope Gregory, Sutton Hoo, Tribal Hidage, Medieval European Coinage, Venerabilis Baedae Opera Historica, Die Synoden Englands, Roman Britain, Charles the Bald, The Anglo-Saxon Achievement, English Historical Review, Anglo-Saxon Church, British Isles, Flores Historiarum, Middle Anglia, Historia Brittonum, Florentii Wigorniensis New!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 25 pages
- Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England) by Sir Frank M. Stenton on 21 pages
- Medieval European Coinage: Volume 1, The Early Middle Ages (5th-10th Centuries) by Philip Grierson on 20 pages
- Venerabilis Baedae by Carolus Plummer on 14 pages
- The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms (Studies in the Early History of Britain Series) by Steven Bassett on 11 pages
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- Carolingian Connections: Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Francia, C. 750-870 (Studies in Early Medieval Britain) by Joanna Story on 18 pages
- Heathen Gods in Old English Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England) by Richard North on 10 pages
- Goscelin of Saint-Bertin: The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely (Oxford Medieval Texts) by Rosalind C. Love on 5 pages
- Christianizing Kinship: Ritual Sponsorship in Anglo-Saxon England by Joseph M. Lynch on 4 pages
- (Re-)Reading Bede: The Ecclesiastical History in Context by N.J. Higham in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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