1.0 - 1 Anglo Saxons England 500-1066

This episode includes an introduction to Series 1, the Anglo Saxons, and then a discussion of the sources we have available for the settlement period. We then spend some time on and the way that historians and others have seen and interpreted the Anglo Saxon period.

Series 1 on the Anglo Saxons covers the period from about 400, until 14th October 1066 in just 31 episodes

Episodes 1- 1.4 Cover Romano Britain and the settlement period

Episodes 1.5 - 1.11 Cover the conversation, the formation of the Anglo Saxon kingdoms - and the dominance of Mercia

1.12 1.18 Tell ther story of the Viking invasions, the Gteat Heathen army and the near destruction of the Anglo Saxons; until the rise of Alfred's Wessex, and the conquest of Southumbria by his son Edward

1.19 - 1.21 Tell the story of the golden agre of Æthelstan and Edgar in the 10th century

1.22 - 1.31 See the Æthelred, the second Viking invasions, the restoratio of the House of Cerdic and the disaster of Hasting and end of Anglo Saxon England

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Utgivningsdatum

Ljudbok: 24 december 2010