The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England
Author(s): Marc Morris
A history that spans more than half a millennium, The Anglo-Saxons is nothing less than a quest for England's origins. This is the story of our island at its most strange and evocative period - the time of the Anglo-Saxons.
Marc Morris's brilliant new book will take its readers from an alien world of slaves, temples, villas, druids and amphorae, to a familiar landscape of shires and boroughs, villages, parish churches and minsters; from the worship of vanished gods like Thor and Woden to the veneration of saints - Cuthbert, Alban, Edmund - who still recognised today; from a population who spoke Latin and Celtic, to one whose language was recognizably the ancestor of the English that is spoken today.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House UK
- : HUTCHINSON PUBLISHING - TRADE
- : 0.987
- : 01 July 2021
- : {"length"=>["24"], "width"=>["15.6"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
- : books
Special Fields
- : 942.01
- : English
- : Hardback
- : Marc Morris