Historians, numismatists and philologists consider fundamental aspects of 9c political and economic history. The ninth century was a period of upheaval in Engla

If the Viking Wars had not taken place, would there have been a united England in the tenth century? Martyn Whittock believes not, arguing that without them the

In Families of the King, Alice Sheppard explicitly addresses the larger interpretive question of how the manuscripts function as history.

First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom, it was pivotal in the story of Englan