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| Material Type: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
D P Kirby |
| ISBN: | 041524210X 9780415242103 0415242118 9780415242110 |
| OCLC Number: | 43951929 |
| Notes: | First published: Unwin Hyman Ltd : 1991. |
| Description: | xv, 258 p. : maps 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | D.P. Kirby. |
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