The Anglo-Saxons
10 best books like The Anglo-Saxons (James Campbell): Ecclesiastical History of the English People, The History of the Franks, The Druids, Boudicca: The Warrior Queen, Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources, Alfred the Great, The Anglo Saxon Chronicle, The Beginnings of Rome: Italy from the Bronze Age to the Punic Wars, The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization, Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English
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...
| 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...
| 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
'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...
| 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...
| Author | Justin Pollard |
| ISBN | 0719566665 |
In an era darkened by the terror of Viking invasions, England's first and greatest king was a beacon of light. "This is the story of England's birth. A great story, beautifully told." (Bernard Cornwell, author of The Pale Horseman)
Alfred was England's first kin, and his rule spanned troubled...
| Author | Various |
| ISBN | 1419152319 |
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...
| 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...
| 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...
| 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...
