D P Kirby

The Earliest English Kings

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Earliest English Kings is a fascinating survey of Anglo-Saxon History from the sixth century to the eighth century and the death of King Alfred. It explains and explores the 'Heptarchy' or the seven kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England, as well as the various peoples within them, wars, religion, King Offa and the coming of the Vikings. With maps and family trees, this book reveals the complex, distant and tumultuous events of Anglo-Saxon politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Rev edition
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 162mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780415242103
• ISBN-10: 041524210X
• Artikelnr.: 21127730

Autorenporträt

D P Kirby,

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviation
List of figure
Preface to second edition
Preface
The peoples and kingdoms of pre
Viking England
The 'Heptarchy'
The Tribal Hidage
Angles or Saxons?
Hierarchies of command: the Brytenwealda
The problem of nomenclature
Early Kent
The reign of Aethelberht
The pagan reaction under Eadbald
The sequel
The early kings of the western Saxons
The Anglian territories in the late sixth and early seventh centuries
The struggle for political and military leadership
The Deirans and the Bernicians
The wars with the northern Britons
The northern Anglian hegemony in the seventh century
The Humbrian overlordship of Eadwine
Eadwine's British wars
The reign of Oswald
The battle of the Winwaed
The last phase of northern domination in southern England
Military recovery in north Britain under Oswiu and Ecgfrith
Ecclesiastical politics
The southumbrian kingdoms from the mid
seventh to the mid
eighth century
The reign of Wulfhere
The ascendancy of Caedwalla and its aftermath
Reconstruction
The reign of Aethelbald
Northumbria in the eighth century
Offa
The Anglo
Saxon kingdoms in the first three
quarters of the ninth century
The Mercian successors of Offa
Ecgberht, king of Wessex
Northumbria
King Aethelwulf and his sons
The coming of the Vikings
Appendix
Notes
Index.