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10 best books like Alfred the Great (Justin Pollard): Æthelstan: The First King of England, Edward II: The Unconventional King, By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London, The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, Anglo-Saxon England, The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England, Edward IV, Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070

Æthelstan: The First King of England
AuthorSarah Foot
ISBN0300125356
The powerful and innovative King Æthelstan reigned only briefly (924-939), yet his achievements during those eventful fifteen years changed the course of English history. He won spectacular military victories (most notably at Brunanburh), forged unprecedented political connections across...
Edward II: The Unconventional King
AuthorKathryn Warner
ISBN1445641208
He is one of the most reviled English kings in history. He drove his kingdom to the brink of civil war a dozen times in less than twenty years. He allowed his male lovers to rule the kingdom. He led a great army to the most ignominious military defeat in English history. His wife took a lover and invaded his...
By Permission of Heaven: The True Story of the Great Fire of London
AuthorAdrian Tinniswood
ISBN1573222445
A work of dynamic history that depicts in fascinating detail the cataclysm that was the Great Fire of London and the modern European capital that rose from its ashes.
"By Permission of Heaven" is a thrilling account of the Great Fire of London that makes terrific use of a vast array of first-person...
The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology
AuthorKevin Crossley-Holland
ISBN0192835475
Beowulf, The Battle of Maldon, The Dream of the Rood, The Wanderer, and The Seafarer, among other surviving Anglo-Saxon poems are included in this book. But, besides this, chronicles, laws and letters, charters and charms are also incorporated in the anthology.

Kevin Crossley-Holland...
Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources
AuthorAsser
ISBN0140444092
This is a great book to get hold of if you are interested in the Anglo-Saxons or early medieval history. It's packed full of source material - enough to get the curious going, not just Asser's life of Alfred which fascinatingly stops well before Alfred's death (did Asser just die unbeknown to us before...
Anglo-Saxon England
AuthorF.M. Stenton
ISBN0192801392
Discussing the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest, this book focuses on the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms and the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. It also describes the chief phases in the history of...
The Anglo Saxon Chronicle
AuthorVarious
ISBN1419152319
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons. The original ms. of the Chronicle was created late in the 9th century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of Alfred the Great. Multiple copies were made of that original which were distributed...
William the Conqueror: The Norman Impact Upon England
AuthorDavid C. Douglas
ISBN0520003500
In William the Conqueror, Professor Douglas analyzes the causes and the true character of the Norman impact upon England in the eleventh century. The work is both a study of Anglo-Norman history and a biography of a man whose personal career was spectacular, and as reviewers have remarked, it is distinguished...
Edward IV
AuthorCharles Derek Ross
ISBN0300073720
In his own time Edward IV was seen as an able and successful king who rescued England from the miseries of civil war and provided the country with firm, judicious, and popular government. The prejudices of later historians diminished this high reputation, until recent research confirmed Edward as...
Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070
AuthorRobin Fleming
The enormous hoard of beautiful gold military objects found in a field in Staffordshire has focused huge attention on the mysterious world of 7th and 8th century Britain. Clearly the product of a sophisticated, wealthy, highly militarized society, the objects beg innumerable questions about how...
Bloodfeud: Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England
AuthorRichard Fletcher
ISBN0195179447
A treacherous murder in northern England on an early spring day in 1016 is used to introduce readers to the world of the aristocratic men and women of Anglo-Saxon England, their violence, their piety, their assumptions and experiences, their hopes and fears. In this book, award-winning author Richard...
The Fears of Henry IV: The Life of England's Self-Made King
AuthorIan Mortimer
ISBN0224073001
An author with a strong track record now tackles the turbulent reign of Henry IV, the first Lancastrian king.

By 1405, King Henry IV had already survived at least eight plots to dethrone or kill him in the first six years of his reign. Henry had not always been so unpopular. The son of John of Gaunt,...
Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy
AuthorPark Honan
ISBN0198186959
Christopher Marlowe's life was the most spectacular of any English dramatist. One of the great playwrights of his age, second only to Shakespeare, he was also a secret agent as well as the central figure in a murder mystery. Now, Park Honan offers the most thoroughly researched and detailed biography...
Conquest
AuthorJuliet Barker
ISBN1408700832
In her best-selling Agincourt, Juliet Barker gave us the definitive narrative of Henry V’s extraordinary victory over the French. Now, in Conquest, she tells the equally remarkable, but largely forgotten, story of the dramatic years when England ruled France at the point of a sword.

Henry...
The Anglo-Saxons
AuthorJames Campbell
ISBN0140143955
This survey, an introduction to the history of Anglo-Saxon England looks at political history, and religious, cultural, social, legal and economic themes are woven in. Throughout the book the authors make use of original sources such as chronicles, charters, manuscripts and coins, works of art,...
The Saxon and Norman Kings
AuthorChristopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke
ISBN0631231315
Going back to my potentially never ending programme of deciding whether to read & retain or read & release books from my shelves I returned to Christopher Brooke's The Saxon and Norman Kings. The first few chapters are thematic, followed by some covering broader periods of time before the source...
The White Horse King: The Life of Alfred the Great
AuthorBenjamin R. Merkle
ISBN1595552529
The unlikely king who saved England.

Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe.

Then,...
1066
AuthorFrank McLynn
ISBN0712666729
Everyone knows what William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings in 1066, but in recent years is has become customary to assume that the victory was virtually inevitable, given the alleged superiority of Norman military technology. In this new study, underpinned by biographical sketches of the...
King John: Treachery and Tyranny in Medieval England: The Road to Magna Carta
AuthorMarc Morris
ISBN1605988855
A rousing and authoritative new biography of the notorious King John, by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Marc Morris.

King John is one of those historical characters who needs little in the way of introduction. If readers are not already familiar with him as the tyrant whose misgovernment...
Queen Emma: A History of Power, Love, and Greed in 11th-Century England
AuthorHarriet O'Brien
ISBN1596911190
"A lively account of the harsh realities of war and politics in this era, the vagaries of political marriage and the thin line between invaders and settlers."—Publishers Weekly

Emma, one of England's most remarkable queens, made her mark on a nation beset by Viking raiders at the end of the...
Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English
AuthorMarjorie Chibnall
ISBN0631190287
This is the first comprehensive and fully documented study of the Empress Matilda to be published in English. Much of the serious work on her life and historical importance has never been translated from German, and almost all has concentrated on the years of her struggle with Stephen for the English...
A Realm Divided: England in 1215
AuthorDan Jones
ISBN1781858829
1215 - the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history - saw England engulfed by crisis. Weakened by the loss of Normandy, King John faced insurrection by his disgruntled barons. With the assistance of the Archbishop of Canterbury, they drew up a list of their...
William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147-1219
AuthorDavid Crouch
ISBN0582772222
Ruthless opportunist, astute courtier, manipulative politician and brutal, efficient soldier: this is William Marshal as portrayed by David Crouch in his widely acclaimed biography of 'the Marshal'. With the new translation of the contemporary epic poem, Histoire de Giuillaume de Mareschal,...
History of William the Conqueror
AuthorJacob Abbott
After watching the TV series "Vikings" on the cable TV History Channel, I've been wanting to learn more about the Vikings and the Norman conquest.

I'd been avoiding the Normans for many years now, especially after what happened to the Saxon King, Harold Godwinson, - every inch a king until he...
Young Henry: The Rise of Henry VIII
AuthorRobert Hutchinson
ISBN0297859528
There are a myriad amount of primary and secondary source materials (documents, rolls, pamphlets, books, blogs, magazines, videos, and so forth) showcasing the reign of King Henry VIII – especially his divorce from Katherine of Aragon, his break from the Catholic Church, and his on multiple wives....
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