Northumbria, 5001100
Subtitle: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 10, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780521813358
Subjects: Archaeology by period / region; British & Irish history: c 500 to c 1000; Northumbria (Region); History; Europe - General; History - General History; Northumbria (Kingdom); History: World; Northumberland; Europe - Great Britain - General; Medieval; Western Europe - General; Philosophy / General; England; Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066; Anglo-Saxons; Great Britain
First sentence: The early middle ages also offer a rich field for studying the origins of political structures and the ideologies which underpinned them, for the kingdoms which succeeded to the Roman Empire in the west were in important respects new political structures - even the office of king as it emerged in these centuries was a new one, and had certainly not been in general use amongst the Romans.