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An English Empire: Bede and the Early Anglo-Saxon Kings

By Nicholas J. Higham

Book information

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0719044243, 9780719044243
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5275426 bytes)
Series
Origins of England
Pages
269\277
Time added
2021-08-05 03:47:33

Description

This second book in the Origins of England trilogy examines the organization and make-up of Anglo-Saxon England in the early 7th century, taking as its starting point the highly rhetorical account of Britain's ecclesiastical history written by Bede. Contents Figures Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Bede and imperium 2 The imperium-wielding kings of HE, II, 5 3 The Tribal Hidage: its context and purpose 4 Regional governance and imperium 5 Rædwald: a pagan ‘overking’ 6 An English empire: status and ethnicity Index

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