"The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of Augustine's Chris...

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1. Verfasser:	Adams, Max 1961- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Karte
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	London Head of Zeus 2021
Schriftenreihe:	An Apollo Book
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 350-635 Großbritannien Great Britain / History / Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 Great Britain 449-1066 History
Zusammenfassung:	"The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of Augustine's Christian mission at the end of the sixth, the kingdoms of Early Medieval Britain were formed. But by whom? And out of what? In The First Kingdom, Max Adams scrutinizes the narrative of this period handed down to us by later historians and chroniclers. Stripping away the more lurid claims made for a warrior-hero named Arthur, he synthesises the research carried out over the last forty years to tease out the strands of reality from the myth. He reveals how archaeology has delivered evidence of a diverse and dynamic response to Britain's new-found independence, of material and intellectual trade between the Atlantic islands and the rest of Europe, and of the environmental context of those centuries. A skilfully wrought and intellectually probing investigation of the most mysterious epoch in our history, The First Kingdom presents an image of post-Roman Britain whose resolution is high enough to show the emergence of distinct political structures in the sixth century - polities that survive long enough to be embedded in the medieval landscape, recorded in the lines of river, road and watershed, and memorialised in place names."--
Beschreibung:	Subtitle from book jacket cover
Beschreibung:	xx, 491 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 24 cm
ISBN:	9781788543477 9781788543484