A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons by Geoffrey Hindley - ISBN: 9781845291617
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From invaders to nation-builders: forging England and shaping Europe.

A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    20 June 2006

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Summary

Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the ‘Aftermath’), historian Geoffrey Hindley shows the Anglo-Saxons as formative in the history not only of England but also of Europe.

The society inspired by the warrior world of the Old English poem Beowulf saw England become the world’s first nation state and Europe’s first country to conduct affairs in its own language, and Bede and Boniface of Wessex establish the dating convention w…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781845291617
ISBN-10:1845291611
Author:Geoffrey Hindley
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Robinson Publishing
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:20 June 2006
Weight:330g
Dimensions:197mm x 128mm x 29mm
Series:Brief Histories
About The Author

Geoffrey Hindley

Geoffrey Hindley (1935-2014), educated at Kingswood School, Bath and University College Oxford, is a lecturer and writer. He was three times an invited participant at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University; was visiting associate professor at the University of Florida, Gainesville; and lectured in Europe and America on European culture, medieval social history and Magna Carta, and the history of music. From 1994 to 2000 he taught English civilization at the University of Le Havre. Right up until his death he was co-president of the Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science of Oxford and London. His many books include The Shaping of Europe, England in the Age of Caxton, The Book of Magna Carta, A Brief History of the Crusades and A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons.

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