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A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons (I.B.Tauris short histories) by Henrietta Leyser is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defeated by Viking raiders in 991, emerge from a diverse literature - including Beowulf and Bede's Ecclesiastical History - produced by the people known as the Anglo-Saxons: Germanic tribes who migrated to Britain from Lower Saxony and Denmark in the early fifth century CE. The era once known as the 'Dark Ages' was marked by
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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Henrietta Leyser
- Publisher
- I.B. Tauris and Company, Limited
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781786721402
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Middle Ages (449 1066), European History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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