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

from prichardson

Billed by one reviewer as the real game of thrones this book sheds light on a period of history about which I knew very little and was very entertaining. It peters out a little towards the end when it feels like the author wanted to add more in but overall a very entertaining book

from SChant

A study of 7th-century Northumbria drawn from historical documents, archaeology, place-names and landscape archaeology, but seasoned with a little speculation and inference. It explores how the contemporary ideas of "kingship" were informed by a tribal warrior society where the king's duties were...

from Medievalgirl

As someone who's slightly obsessed with the Anglo-Saxon age, and especially the early Kings of Northumbria, even though I don't live in that region. I blame Bede! I already knew a little about Oswald and his near contemporaries- his Uncle Edwin and brother Oswui from the classic Ecclesiastical Hi...

from john257hopper

This is a superb history. It offers the nearest we will ever get to a biography of a very early medieval king who was not only the central character of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, but also Tolkien's inspiration for Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. But it goes much wider t...

from john257hopper

This is a superb history. It offers the nearest we will ever get to a biography of a very early medieval king who was not only the central character of the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England, but also Tolkien's inspiration for Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. But it goes much wider t...