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The King in the North: The Life and Times of Oswald of Northumbria

By Max Adams

Book information

Publisher
Head of Zeus
Year
2013
ISBN
1781854181, 9781781854181
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14912489 bytes)
Pages
464\0
Topic
History
Time added
2014-06-30 09:51:52
Исторические дисциплины;История стран Европы и Аме

Description

Oswald Whiteblade lived one of the most influential and colourful lives in early English history. Before his death in battle against the pagans of Mercia cut short his reign as king of Northumbria (634-42), he remodelled his northeastern English homeland as a Christian kingdom, founded the monastery of Lindisfarne, introduced a culture of learning which influenced all Europe, and became the most powerful ruler in Britain. Max Adams's thrilling account rescues Oswald from Dark Age obscurity to reveal an unjustly forgotten English hero - a king whose return from exile to reclaim his birthright was the inspiration for J. R. R. Tolkien's Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings. But THE KING IN THE NORTH is more than just a biography of the first great English monarch; it is a stunningly researched, wide-ranging, beautifully written and revelatory portrait of early medieval England in all its aspects.

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