The earliest English kings

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The earliest English kings

D.P. Kirby

Unwin Hyman, 1991

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Written for both professional and amateur historians, this book provides a narrative account of the dynastic history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the pre-Viking period - and their mercurial political and military rulers. From the late sixth century, when Aethelberht, king of Kent, betan receiving missionaries from rome, records survive which illuminate the identies, activities and relationships of the earliest English kings. Their response to the introduction of Christianity, their dynastic feuds, power-struggles, victories and defeats all emerge in letters, saints' "Lives" and annals, in Bede's "Ecclesiastical History" and in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". In considering this period, David Kirby concludes by looking at why it was that only Alfred's West Saxon dynasty survived the Viking invasion in the second half of the ninth century.

目次

  • Part 1 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. Part 2 Early Kent: the reign of Aelthelberht
  • the pagan reaction under Eadbald
  • the sequel. Part 3 The early kings of the Western Saxons. Part 4 The Anglian territories in the late sixth and early seventh centuries: the struggle for political and military leadership
  • Deirans and Bernicians
  • the wars with the Northern Britons. Part 5 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"
  • military recovery in North Britain under Oswiu and Ecgfrith
  • ecclesiastical politics. Part 6 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 deign of Aethelbald. Part 7 Northumbria in the eighth century. Part 8 Offa. Part 9 The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the first three-quarters of the ninth century: the Mercian successors of Offa
  • Ecgberht, King of Wessex
  • Northumbria
  • King Aethwulf and his sons. Part 10 The coming of the Vikings.

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