In 878, Alfred, king of Wessex was on the verge of oblivion.
Trapped on a small island in the Somerset Levels, it seemed as if
he and his kingdom were about to be destroyed. Yet within months he
had defeated the Viking invaders and started to reverse the tide of
conquest. While Alfred was driven by the prospect of a land called
England that did not yet exist, he was not the one who finally
created it. Two of his children, Edward – king of Wessex after
him – and his remarkable daughter Æthelflæd, the Lady of the
Mercians, expanded his kingdom into Mercia in the Midlands. His
grandson Æthelstan confirmed the conquest of the north at one of
the great battles of the so-called Dark Ages at Brunanburh. The
triumph of Alfred’s dynasty was cemented by the short but
magnificent reign of Edgar ‘the Peaceable’, a man who could
claim to be not just king of England but emperor of the whole of
Britain. The ultimate collapse of Anglo-Saxon England, first of all
in the face of Cnut of Denmark’s campaigns in 1015/16 and later
in the Norman Conquest of 1066, has unjustly obscured their
achievements. This book tells the story of the Anglo-Saxons and
reasserts their right to be regarded as one of the greatest royal
dynasties that Britain has ever seen.
General
Imprint: |
Amberley Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
W.B. Bartlett
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-398-11041-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
History >
General
Books >
History >
General
|
LSN: |
1-398-11041-8 |
Barcode: |
9781398110410 |
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