It feels like the missing piece of historiography on an essential period of our past. Marc Morris is a genius of medieval narrative, and I am full of admiration.-Ian Mortimer, author of THE OUTCASTS OF TIME and THE TIME TRAVELERS GUIDE TO RESTORATION BRITAIN A welcome refreshment of a seminal era in the forging of the English identity.- Kirkus Reviews An asbolute masterpiece.
A thoroughly enjoyable book from an historians historian who can write for the masses.- Kirkus Reviews (starred) A rich trove of ancient wonders, worthy of many a night in the mead hall, listening to its telling! Yet it is also a book for our time. Review Quotes Praise for Marc Morriss The Norman Conquest : A historian who specializes in the Middle Ages, especially that periods monarchies and aristocracy, Morris takes thoroughness to new heights as he compares all the available sources in this valuable text. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.
Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Book Synopsis A sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris.
0 kommentar(er)
