The Making of England, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Green, John Richard Richard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440065225 ISBN 13 : 9781440065224

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how the Northumbrian rise and the spread of the Christian church shaped early England. This volume surveys a pivotal era when rival kingdoms, religious movements, and monastic foundations began to knit a region into a single society. It presents vivid scenes from Guthlac’s hermitage in the fens to the river valleys where new religious houses and towns grew along the Thames and Severn.

- See how monastic life, from Crowland to Barking, redefined communities and offered new social centers.
- Learn how key figures and councils helped organize dioceses and promote learning across the kingdom.
- Discover the roots of English church organization and its impact on national unity.
- Trace the rise of towns and bishoprics that would become anchors of later English history.

Ideal for readers of English history, church history, and the formation of medieval Britain.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

THE gathering of the conquering peoples who had Eadwine in
encamped on the soil of Britain into three great umbna.
kingdoms, a process which we may look on as
fairly completed at the time of the battle of the
Idle, seemed the natural prelude to a fusion of
these kingdoms themselves into a single England.
It is indeed the effort to bring about this union
that forms the history of the English people for
the next forty years, and that gives meaning and
interest to what Milton scorned as "battles of
kites and crows," the long struggles of North-
umbrian, Mercian, and West -Saxon kings to
establish their supremacy over the general mass of
Englishmen. In this struggle Northumbria took
the lead. The attack of Ethelfrith upon Riedwald
was, in fact, the opening of such a contest.

Table of Contents

CONTEXTS; CHAPTER VI;
THE NORTHUMBRIAN SUPREMACY;
Eadwine established as king of Northumbria 1;
The kingdom of Elmet 1;
Eadwine'a conquest of Elmet 7;
His power at sea, and conquests of Anglebua and Man 9;
He establishes his supremacy over Mid-Britain 9;
His victory over the West-Saxons 11
Eadwine supreme over all the English save kent, 11
Character of his rule over Northumbria 11
He is pressed by his Kentish wife to become a Christian 11
The Northumbrian Witan accept Christianity 15
The new faith rejected in East-Anglia 17
Rising of the Mercians 17;
Penda king of the Mercians
Penda becomes supreme over Mid-Britain 19;
His battle with the West-Saxons at Cirencester 19
Probable annexation of the Hwiccan country,
Strife between Penda and Eadwine for East-Anglia 20
Alliance of Penda with Cadwallon 2

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440065225
• ISBN 13: 9781440065224
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 255
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