This book traces the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, in a broader European context. It examines the ethnic, political, social and religious changes that (after the end of the Roman Empire) transformed the large and disparate area between the Humber and the Firth of Forth into one of the most powerful kingdoms of early medieval England. It also examines the subsequent changes which led to the kingdom's disintegration and its replacement by political structures of northern England and southern Scotland.
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'This is an erudite volume.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History
'This book is an important contribution to the history both of Britain and Europe in the Early Middle Ages, and particularly significant for focusing on a failed State in a period when the success stories - such as Frankia, Wessex and, later, England - get most attention ... this is a major and generally well-produced work and is to be welcomed.' N. J. Higham University of Manchester, Northern History
'... displays the clarity, coherence and matured thinking which are the best fruits of good teaching ... For students this book will be immensely useful, and it contains arguments and judgments with which specialists will have to engage from now on.' History
'This book is an important contribution to the history both of Britain and Europe in the Early Middle Ages, and particularly significant for focusing on a failed State in a period when the success stories - such as Frankia, Wessex and, later, England - get most attention ... this is a major and generally well-produced work and is to be welcomed.' N. J. Higham University of Manchester, Northern History
'... displays the clarity, coherence and matured thinking which are the best fruits of good teaching ... For students this book will be immensely useful, and it contains arguments and judgments with which specialists will have to engage from now on.' History
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This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria, set in a wider European context. It examines the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change which, beginning after the end of the Roman Empire, welded the large and disparate area between the Humber and the Firth of Forth into one of the most powerful kingdoms of early medieval England, and thos which led to its disintegration and its replacement by political structures of northern England and southern Scotland.
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The early middle ages also offer a rich field for studying the origins of political structures and the ideologies which underpinned them, for the kingdoms which succeeded to the Roman Empire in the west were in important respects new political structures - even the office of king as it emerged in these centuries was a new one, and had certainly not been in general use amongst the Romans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Old English, West Saxon, Life Wilf, Lindisfarne Gospels, History of St Cuthbert, Community of St Cuthbert, Firth of Forth, Roman Empire, Life Cuth, Old Norse, King Ecgfrith, River Tees, Hadrian's Wall, Solway Firth, Domesday Book, Gregory the Great, County Durham, David Rollason, King Alfred, York Minster, History of the Kings, Northern Annals, Symeon of Durham, Great Army New!
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The early middle ages also offer a rich field for studying the origins of political structures and the ideologies which underpinned them, for the kingdoms which succeeded to the Roman Empire in the west were in important respects new political structures - even the office of king as it emerged in these centuries was a new one, and had certainly not been in general use amongst the Romans. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Old English, West Saxon, Life Wilf, Lindisfarne Gospels, History of St Cuthbert, Community of St Cuthbert, Firth of Forth, Roman Empire, Life Cuth, Old Norse, King Ecgfrith, River Tees, Hadrian's Wall, Solway Firth, Domesday Book, Gregory the Great, County Durham, David Rollason, King Alfred, York Minster, History of the Kings, Northern Annals, Symeon of Durham, Great Army New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 28 by Michael Lapidge on 9 pages
- Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn from Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York (The archaeology of York) (Vol 17) by A MacGregor on 7 pages
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by King Alfred the Great on 7 pages
- Roman York (Revealing History) by Patrick Ottaway on page 69, page 111, and Back Matter
- The Anglo-Saxons from the Migration Period to the Eighth Century: An Ethnographic Perspective (Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology) by John Hines in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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