As far as women were concerned, was 1066 generally a Good Thing, a Bad Thing – or just a Thing? That’s the main item of debate this week, along withRead More
Anglo Saxon
20 Anglo Saxon England in the 11th Century
Governance, Law and Society before the Norman Conquest
19 Edward the Confessor
The Confessor rules at behest of his great men, but with some success
18 The End of the Danish Dynasty, Edward the Confessor and the Rise of the Great men
The late Anglo Saxon state was dominated by overmighty subjects
17 Cnut the Conqueror
The reign of the Northern Emperor
16 Edmund Ironside and Cnut
The last Anglo Saxon champion slugs it out with the Danish invader
14 Aetheled the Unready and the Rising Tide
Aethelred faces the terrors of the Viking and uses brutality, marriage and bribery to survive
2 The Rise of Mercia
From the 650s, a power begins to emerge in the west midlands – the border people, Mercians
1.2 Adventus Saxonum
The traditional story of the arrival of the Anglo Saxons is one of death and destruction, and the catastrophic and complete replacement of a British population by a new GermanicRead More