In Search of the Dark Ages

In Search of the Dark Ages
Author :
Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 286
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781448141517
ISBN-13 : 1448141516
Rating : 4/5 (516 Downloads)

Book Synopsis In Search of the Dark Ages by : Michael Wood

Download or read book In Search of the Dark Ages written by Michael Wood and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In this new edition, Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British history such as Hadrian, a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most important person of African origin in British history, to Queen Boadicea, the leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting the latest historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain.


In Search of the Dark Ages Related Books

In Search of the Dark Ages
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Michael Wood
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-05-14 - Publisher: Random House

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely unrecognised people of the British isles, In Search of the Dark
The Dark Ages, 476-918
Language: en
Pages: 546
Authors: Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-11 - Publisher: Franklin Classics

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi
The Dark Ages, 476-918
Language: en
Pages: 556
Authors: Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman
Categories: Europe
Type: BOOK - Published: 1905 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Periods of European Literature: The dark ages
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: William Paton Ker
Categories: Literature
Type: BOOK - Published: 1923 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Peter S. Wells
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-24 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A rich and surprising look at the robust European culture that thrived after the collapse of Rome. The barbarians who destroyed the glory that was Rome demolish