Angleland: State-building & nation-forging in Anglo-Saxon...
Bowen, Neil / Eldridge, Chris
Anglo-Saxon England - the reality behind JRR Tolkein's Middle Earth and Bernard Cornwell's Last Kingdom series. The half millennia, between the fall of Rome and the Norman Conquest, is the most enigmatic period in British history, often written off as the impenetrable 'Dark Ages'. 'Angeland' illuminates the reality of this period: a time of phenomenal creativity, excitement and dramatic, far-reaching change, of colour and contrast, of ravening...