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Title The earliest English kings / D.P. Kirby.
Author Kirby, D. P.
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Edition Rev. ed.
Description xv, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format text; unmediated; volume
ISBN 0415242118 (pbk.)
041524210X :

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-240) and index.
Contents The peoples and kingdoms of pre-Viking England -- The 'Heptarchy' -- The Tribal Hidage -- Angles or Saxons? -- Hierarchies of command: the Brytenwealda -- The problem of nomenclature -- Early Kent -- The reign of Aethelberht -- The pagan reaction under Eadbald -- The sequel -- The early kings of the western Saxons -- The Anglian territories in the late sixth and early seventh centuries -- The struggle for political and military leadership -- The Deirans and the Bernicians -- The wars with the northern Britons -- The northern Anglian hegemony in the seventh century -- The Humbrian overlordship of Eadwine -- Eadwine's British wars -- The reign of Oswald -- The battle of the Winwaed -- The last phase of northern domination in southern England -- Military recovery in north Britain under Oswiu and Ecgfrith -- Ecclesiastical politics -- The southumbrian kingdoms from the mid-seventh to the mid-eighth century -- The reign of Wulfhere -- The ascendancy of Caedwalla and its aftermath -- Reconstruction -- The reign of Aethelbald -- Northumbria in the eighth century -- Offa -- The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the first three-quarters of the ninth century -- The Mercian successors of Offa -- Ecgberht, king of Wessex -- Northumbria -- King Aethelwulf and his sons -- The coming of the Vikings.
Subjects (Topics) Anglo-Saxons -- Kings and rulers.
Monarchy -- England -- History.
Subjects (Places) Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 449-1066.
Bib utility control no. 43951929

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