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10 best books like Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Bede): The History of the Kings of Britain, The History of the Franks, The Battle of Maldon, Two Lives of Charlemagne, In Search of the Dark Ages, The Anglo-Saxon World: An Anthology, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, Chronicles, Chronicles of the Crusades, The History and Topography of Ireland

The History of the Kings of Britain
AuthorGeoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN0140441700
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous...
The History of the Franks
AuthorGregory of Tours
ISBN0140442952
Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539-594) is a fascinating exploration of the events that shaped sixth-century France. This volume contains all ten books from the work, the last seven of which provide an in-depth description...
The Battle of Maldon
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0951620908
The Battle of Maldon
Composed in approx. 1100 AD

This narrative poetry right away made me think of « The Song of Roland.»

Taking my copy off the shelve, I went to compare the dates of these historical events that became legendary related poetry.

The battle in which Roland...
Two Lives of Charlemagne
AuthorEinhard
ISBN0140442138
Two revealingly different accounts of the life of the most important figure of the Roman Empire

Charlemage, known as the father of Europe, was one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers. The biographies brought together here provide a rich and varied portrait of the king from...
In Search of the Dark Ages
AuthorMichael Wood
ISBN0563522763
This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible...
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...
Chronicles
AuthorJean Froissart
ISBN0140442006
The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle...
Chronicles of the Crusades
AuthorJean de Joinville
ISBN0140441247
Two famous, firsthand accounts of the holy war in the Middle Ages translated by Margaret R. B. Shaw

Originally composed in Old French, the two chronicles brought together here offer some of the most vivid and reliable accounts of the Crusades from a Western perspective. Villehardouin's Conquest...
The History and Topography of Ireland
AuthorGerald of Wales
ISBN0140444238
Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an extraordinary...
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...
Fourteen Byzantine Rulers: The Chronographia of Michael Psellus
AuthorMichael Psellus
ISBN0140441697
A very readable translation of a memoir/history written roughly a thousand years ago, by a Byzantine scholar and government functionary who, through the vagaries of his near-century of life and service, witnessed, sometimes firsthand, the reigns and deaths of an ungodly number of succeeding Byzantine...
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...
The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity
AuthorPeter R.L. Brown
ISBN0226076229
Following the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, the cult of the saints was the dominant form of religion in Christian Europe. In this elegantly written work, Peter Brown explores the role of tombs, shrines, relics, and pilgrimages connected with the sacred bodies of the saints. He shows how men and...
The Early Church
AuthorHenry Chadwick
This is the first volume of the penguin history of the church and not the beginning of a history of Christianity.

Implicit in this book is the idea that orthodoxy has always existed. This is a problem and a grave weakness. In the absence of a creed, a canon of agreed genuine holy books there is only...
The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
AuthorBarbara A. Hanawalt
ISBN0195045645
Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth-...
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,...
With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture Since 1830
AuthorLeRoy Ashby
ISBN0813123976
Popular culture is a central part of everyday life to many Americans. Personalities such as Elvis Presley, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan are more recognizable to many people than are most elected officials. With Amusement for All is the first comprehensive history of two centuries of mass entertainment...
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
AuthorEusebius
ISBN0140445358
Eusebius's account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years.

Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in writing the History and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical historians....
The Making of the Middle Ages
AuthorR.W. Southern
ISBN0300002300
An acknolwedged classic of european history, R.W. Southern's "The Middle Ages" focuses on the period between 900 and 1200 A.D. His geopgraphic focus is mostly northern france, with some asides to Germany, Italy, Southern France and England. His main thesis is the idea that this period saw the emergence...
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades
AuthorJonathan Riley-Smith
ISBN0192854283
In The Oxford Illustrated History of the Crusades, the story of the Crusades is told as never before in an engrossing, authoritative, and comprehensive history that ranges from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of the crusading ideals and imagery that continues today. Here are...
The Christian Tradition 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition 100-600
AuthorJaroslav Pelikan
ISBN0226653714

A definitive history of Christian Doctrine.

This is probably not the best place to begin learning about the subject, since Pelikan assumes an acquaintance with such terms as Sabellianism, Pelagianism, hypostasis, ousia, etc, but I believe that even a beginner--at least one equipped...
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