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The First Kingdom - Britain in the age of Arthur (Paperback)
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The First Kingdom - Britain in the age of Arthur (Paperback)
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The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention
to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'.
Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman
legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of
Augustine's Christian mission at the end of the sixth, the kingdoms
of Early Medieval Britain were formed. But by whom? And out of
what? In The First Kingdom, Max Adams scrutinizes the narrative of
this period handed down to us by later historians and chroniclers.
Stripping away the more lurid claims made for a warrior-hero named
Arthur, he synthesises the research carried out over the last forty
years to tease out the strands of reality from the myth. He reveals
how archaeology has delivered evidence of a diverse and dynamic
response to Britain's new-found independence, of material and
intellectual trade between the Atlantic islands and the rest of
Europe, and of the environmental context of those centuries. A
skilfully wrought and intellectually probing investigation of the
most mysterious epoch in our history, The First Kingdom presents an
image of post-Roman Britain whose resolution is high enough to show
the emergence of distinct political structures in the sixth century
- polities that survive long enough to be embedded in the medieval
landscape, recorded in the lines of river, road and watershed, and
memorialised in place names. PRAISE FOR MAX ADAMS: 'A triumph. The
most gripping portrait of seventh-century Britain that I have read
... A Game of Thrones in the Dark Ages' Tom Holland in The Times on
The King in the North 'Gripping, hugely enjoyable and deeply
scholarly' History Today, Books of the Year, on The King in the
North 'Brilliantly combines history and archaeological research ...
A compelling read' The Lady on AElfred's Britain
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