Edward the Elder: King of the Anglo-Saxons, Forgotten Son of Alfred (Key Michael John)(Pevná vazba)

Edward the Elder: King of the Anglo-Saxons, Forgotten Son of Alfred (Key Michael John)(Pevná vazba)

Edward the Elder succeeded his father Alfred the Great to the kingdom of Wessex, but was largely overlooked by his contemporaries (at least in terms of the historical record) and to a greater or lesser extent by later historians. He is the forgotten son of Alfred. Edward deserves to be recognised

In Search of Alfred the Great: The King, the Grave, the Legend (Albert Edoardo)(Paperback)

Alfred, son of AEthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, ran. Behind him, the takers of his land and kingdom fanned out, searching for the fleeing king ... Buried in AD 899 as the king of the English at his capital city of Winchester, Alfred the Great's bones were thought to have ultimately been moved

Explore!: Anglo Saxons (Bingham Jane)(Paperback)

Travel back to the time of the Anglo Saxons Who was Alfred the Great? Where did the Anglo Saxons come from, and what traditions and beliefs did they bring with them? Explore this ancient civilisation to understand how prehistoric people have influenced the way we live today. Find out how we know

Edward the Confessor: The Sainted King (Woodman David)(Pevná vazba)

Edward the Confessor, the last great king of Anglo-Saxon England, canonized nearly 100 years after his death, is in part a figure of myths created in the late middle ages. In this revealing portrait of England's royal saint, David Woodman traces the course of Edward's twenty-four-year-long reign

The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense (White Edward)(Pevná vazba)

In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon--what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world.The book's twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock's

The Laws of Alfred (Jurasinski Stefan)(Pevná vazba)

King Alfred's domboc ('book of laws'), the most ambitious legal text of the Anglo-Saxon period, combines translated biblical laws with Alfred's own ordinances and those of the early West-Saxon King Ine. This edition and commentary - the first in over a century - will interest all students of

Wessex: A Captivating Guide to an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of England and Its Rulers Such as Alfred the Great, Edward the Elder, an (History Captivating)(Paperback)

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Wessex, then keep reading...The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex was created through conquest by the Germanic tribe known as the Gewisse. For the following five hundred years, this kingdom went through various transformations. Some even argue that

Edward the Confessor: King of England (Rex Peter)(Paperback)

Edward the Confessor was the son of King Aethelred the Unready of the House of Wessex. The family was exiled to Normandy when the Danish invaded England in 1013 but, with the nation in crisis on the death of King Harthacnut twenty-nine years later, Edward was named King of England, restoring the

The Life of King Alfred (Giles J. a.)(Paperback)

This is a biography of the medieval Anglo-Saxon King Alfred, part of a dynasty that maintained control over England until the Norman Conquest led by William the Conqueror hundreds of years later during the 11th

History Starting Points: Alfred the Great and the Anglo Saxons (Gill David)(Paperback)

Alfred was the only English king to ever be given the title 'Great'. Why? He successfully defended Britain from wave after wave of Viking invaders, formed the first English army and navy, encouraged English people to talk in their mother tongue and set up the beginnings of a renowned, progressive

The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution (Braddick Michael)(Pevná vazba)

The second son of a modest gentry family, John Lilburne was accused of treason four times, and put on trial for his life under both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell. He fought bravely in the Civil War, seeing action at a number of key battles and rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was shot

Mercia: The Rise and Fall of a Kingdom (Whitehead Annie)(Pevná vazba)

Many people know about Wessex, the 'Last Kingdom' of the Anglo-Saxons to fall to the Northmen, but another kingdom, Mercia, once enjoyed supremacy over not only Wessex, but all of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. At its zenith Mercia controlled what is now Birmingham and London ‒ and the political,

The Key of Solomon the King (MacGregor Mathers S. L.)(Pevná vazba)

Britain Ad: A Quest for Arthur, England and the Anglo-Saxons (Pryor Francis)(Paperback)

Leading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins.The legend of King Arthur and Camelot is one of the most enduring in Britain's history, spanning centuries and surviving invasions by Angles, Vikings and

Alfred the Great: Asser's Life of King Alfred and Other Contemporary Sources (Anonymous)(Paperback)

This comprehensive collection includes Asser's Life of Alfred, extracts from The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Alfred's own writings, laws, and will. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles,

The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of the Anglo-Saxons and the Rise of the Normans (Bradbury Jim)(Pevná vazba)

The effects of the Battle of Hastings were deeply felt at the time, causing a lasting shift in British cultural identity and national pride. Jim Bradbury explores the full military background of the battle and investigates both what actually happened on that fateful day in 1066 and the role that

The Key of Solomon the King Clavicula Salomonis (Mathers S. L. MacGregor)(Pevná vazba)

True Tales of Kings & Queens - Reading Book: Boudica, Alfred the Great, King John & Queen Victoria (CGP Books)(Paperback / softback)

True Tales of Kings & Queens - Reading Book: Boudica, Alfred the Great, King John & Queen

Daughters of Edward I (Warner Kathryn)(Pevná vazba)

In 1254 the teenage heir to the English throne married a Spanish bride, the sister of the king of Castile, in Burgos, and their marriage of thirty-six years proved to be one of the great royal romances of the Middle Ages. Edward I of England and Leonor of Castile had at least fourteen children

Arthur, High King of Britain (Morpurgo Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Michael Morpurgo's imaginative retelling of the King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table tales, accompanied by Michael Foreman's stunning illustrations A boy sets out to hike across the sea bed at low tide to an island not too far offshore, determined to prove that he could make it there and

Stoner - John Williams

A beautiful hardback edition of the iconic forgotten classic, the story of one man's ordinary, extraordinary life. William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's

The Lost Library of the King of Portugal (Delaforce Angela)(Pevná vazba)

The destruction on the morning of All Saints Day 1755 of the heart of the city of Lisbon by an earthquake, tidal wave and the urban fires that followed was a tragedy that divides the 18th century in Portugal. One casualty on that fatal morning was the Royal Library, one of the most magnificent

Keeper of Style: John Murray, the King of Lord's (Sandford Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

The life and times of Middlesex and England wicketkeeper-batsman John 'JT' Murray, one of the acknowledged greats of English post-war cricket. Irresistibly cool, glamorous and apparently unapproachable, Murray was Christopher Sandford's consuming hero at the time the author was confined in an

ROUX - The Magnificent Red Squirrel Who Befriended the King of England (Stirling John)(Pevná vazba)

The charming story of a large red squirrel befriended by King Henry