The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 by Marc MorrisRequirements: .ePUB reader, 32 MBOverview: A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and […]
Childhood in Anglo-Saxon England by Sally CrawfordRequirements: .ePUB reader, 13 mbOverview: What was it like to be a child in England between the fifth and eleventh centuries? Who looked after children, how were they educated, what games did they play, and when did they have to take on adult responsibilities? What happened at birth, when […]
An Alternative History of Britain: The Anglo-Saxon Age by Timothy VenningRequirements: .M4A/.M4B reader, 289 MBOverview: Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken. Dr. Timothy Venning starts within an outline of the process by which much of Britain came to […]
style=”flex-grow: 1″> The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England by Peter SawyerRequirements: .PDF reader, 3 mbOverview: How did the Anglo-Saxons obtain the treasure that tempted Vikings to raid England frequently in the ninth century and again between 980 and 1018? As Britain then had no gold mine and its lead mines yielded very little silver, this treasure […]
Anglo-Saxon Thegn AD 449–1066 by Mark HarrisonRequirements: .PDF reader, 11.9 MBOverview: The collapse of Roman rule in Britain was not so much a sudden catastrophe as a long and drawn-out decline. The ‘Celtic’ Britons retreated gradually to the highland areas of Wales, Cornwall and the south-west of Scotland. Control of the fertile eastern lowlands was […]