The Anglo Saxon Chronicle

10 best books like The Anglo Saxon Chronicle (Various): Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The History of the Franks, The Druids, Boudicca: The Warrior Queen, In Search of the Dark Ages, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, The Beginnings of Rome: Italy from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, The Anglo-Saxons, Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Author

Bede

One night a group of monks from Durham cathedral seized Bede's remains and took them back to Durham for reburial there, making Bede one of those people who have ended up travelling further in death than they ever did while alive.

The give away fact about this book is it's title. What Bede wants...

The History of the Franks

Author	Gregory of Tours
ISBN	0140442952

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 Druids

Author	Peter Berresford Ellis
ISBN	0802841589

In this compelling and highly readable study of the Druids, respected Celtic scholar Peter Berresford Ellis sifts through the historical evidence, the legend and lore, and gives the first authentic, reliable account of who the mysterious Druids were and what role they played in Celtic society. Including...

Boudicca: The Warrior Queen

Author

M.J. Trow

'She was tall and terrible, with a great mass of red hair to her hips. She wore a twisted torc and a tunic of many colours ... She carried a spear to instil terror in all who saw her.' Dio Cassius In AD 61 Roman governor Suetonius Paullinus, a veteran of mountain warfare in Africa, led a crushing defeat by the...

In Search of the Dark Ages

Author	Michael Wood
ISBN	0563522763

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...

Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources

Author	Asser
ISBN	0140444092

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...

The Beginnings of Rome: Italy from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars

Author	Tim J. Cornell
ISBN	0415015960

Using the results of archaeological techniques, and examining methodological debates, Tim Cornell provides a lucid and authoritative account of the rise of Rome. The beginnings of Rome, once thought to be lost in the mists of legend, are now being revealed by an ever-increasing body of archaeological...

The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization

Author	Bryan Ward-Perkins
ISBN	0192807285

Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or, as scholars argue today, was there no crisis at all, but simply a peaceful blending of barbarians into Roman culture, an essentially positive transformation?

In The Fall of Rome, eminent historian...

The Anglo-Saxons

Author	James Campbell
ISBN	0140143955

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,...

Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English

Author	Marjorie Chibnall
ISBN	0631190287

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...

Joan of Arc: By Herself and Her Witnesses

Author	Régine Pernoud
ISBN	0812812603

Using historical documents and translated by Regine Pernoud, Joan of Arc seeks to answer the questions asked by Joan's contemporaries as well as us: Who was she? Whence came she? What had been her life and exploits? First published in the United States in 1966 by Stein and Day, this book reveals the historical...