The earliest English kings /

The earliest English kings /

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Author / Creator:	Kirby, D. P.
Edition:	Rev. ed.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 258 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Subject:	Anglo-Saxons -- Kings and rulers. Monarchy -- England -- History. Anglo-Saxons -- Kings and rulers. Monarchy. Politics and government Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 449-1066. England. Great Britain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13581529

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ISBN:	0203170148 9780203170144 0203130766 9780203130766 9780415242110 0415242118 9781315011608 1315011603 9781000086645 100008664X 9781000084672 1000084671 9781000082869 1000082865 041524210X 9780415242103 9786610329489 6610329486
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-240) and index. D P Kirby. Print version record.
Summary:	A fascinating survey of Anglo-Saxon history from the sixth century to the eighth century and the death of King Alfred. This book reveals the complex, distant and tumultuous events of Anglo-Saxon politics.
Other form:	Print version: Kirby, D.P. Earliest English kings. Rev. ed. London ; New York : Routledge, 2000 041524210X
Govt.docs classification:	HIS1010

Table of Contents:

Abbreviations
List of figures
Preface to second edition
Preface
1. The peoples and kingdoms of pre-Viking England
The 'Heptarchy'
The Tribal Hidage
Angles or Saxons?
Hierarchies of command: the Brytenwealda
The problem of nomenclature
2. Early Kent
The reign of Aethelberht
The pagan reaction under Eadbald
The sequel
3. The early kings of the western Saxons
4. The Anglian territories in the late sixth and early seventh centuries
The struggle for political and military leadership
The Deirans and the Bernicians
The wars with the northern Britons
5. The northern Anglian hegemony in the seventh century
The Humbrian overlordship of Eadwine
Eadwine's British wars
The reign of Oswald
The battle of the Winwaed
The last phase of northern domination in southern England
Military recovery in north Britain under Oswiu and Ecgfrith
Ecclesiastical politics
6. The southumbrian kingdoms from the mid-seventh to the mid-eighth century
The reign of Wulfhere
The ascendancy of Caedwalla and its aftermath
Reconstruction
The reign of Aethelbald
7. Northumbria in the eighth century
8. Offa
9. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the first three-quarters of the ninth century
The Mercian successors of Offa
Ecgberht, king of Wessex
Northumbria
King Aethelwulf and his sons
10. The coming of the Vikings
Appendix
Notes
Index