In Search of the Dark Ages

In Search of the Dark Ages
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 290
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ISBN-10 : 9780563522768
ISBN-13 : 0563522763
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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 2005 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans, and King Arthur, the 'once and future king', for whose riddle Wood proposes a new and surprising solution. 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. 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. TV.' history and archaeology.'


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