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  • Offa

    King of the Mercians

    by Rory Naismith ...
    Series series The English Monarchs Series
    An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon historyOffa ruled the Mercian heartland of the west midlands from 757 to 796. But while Alfred the Great and his dynasty are seen as agents of a new beginning that resulted in a unified Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Offa is best remembered as the builder of a great dyke and as a ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Early Medieval Britain, c. 500–1000

    by Rory Naismith ...
    Series Book 1 - Cambridge History of Britain
    Early medieval Britain saw the birth of England, Scotland and of the Welsh kingdoms. Naismith's introductory textbook explores the period between the end of Roman rule and the eve of the Norman Conquest, blending an engaging narrative with clear explanations of key themes and sources. Using extensive illustrations, maps and selections from primary sources, students will examine the island as a ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Citadel of the Saxons

    The Rise of Early London

    by Professor Rory Naismith ...
    With a past as deep and sinewy as the famous River Thames that twists like an eel around the jutting peninsula of Mudchute and the Isle of Dogs, London is one of the world's greatest and most resilient cities. Born beside the sludge and the silt of the meandering waterway that has always been its lifeblood, it has weathered invasion, flood, abandonment, fire and bombing. The modern story of London ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

  • Making Money in the Early Middle Ages

    by Rory Naismith ...
    An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval EuropeBetween the end of the Roman Empire in the fifth century and the economic transformations of the twelfth, coined money in western Europe was scarce and high in value, difficult for the majority of the population to make use of. And yet, as Rory Naismith shows in this illuminating study, ... Read more

    Was $52.79 CAD Now $32.99 CAD

  • Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

    The Southern English Kingdoms, 757–865

    by Rory Naismith ...
    Series Book 80 - Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    This groundbreaking study of coinage in early medieval England is the first to take account of the very significant additions to the corpus of southern English coins discovered in recent years and to situate this evidence within the wider historical context of Anglo-Saxon England and its continental neighbours. Its nine chapters integrate historical and numismatic research to explore who made ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

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    Offa

    King of the Mercians

    by Rory Naismith ...
    Narrated by Liam Gerrard ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 12 min

    An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon historyOffa ruled the Mercian heartland of the west midlands from 757 to 796. But while Alfred the Great and his dynasty are seen as agents of a new beginning that resulted in a unified Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Offa is best remembered as the builder of a great dyke and as a ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Writing Battles

    New Perspectives on Warfare and Memory in Medieval Europe

    Edited by Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Elizabeth Ashman Rowe, Professor Rory Naismith ...
    Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness, as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or when aspects of collective identity were shaped. But how have perspectives on warfare changed? How similar are present day ideologies of warfare to those of the medieval period?Looking back over a thousand years of British, Irish and Scandinavian battles, this ... Read more

    $45.39 CAD

  • Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England

    Edited by David A. Woodman, Rory Naismith ...
    The workings of royal and ecclesiastical authority in Anglo-Saxon England can only be understood on the basis of direct engagement with original texts and material artefacts. This book, written by leading experts, brings together new research that represents the best of the current scholarship on the nexus between authority and written sources from Anglo-Saxon England. Ranging from the seventh to ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • A Cultural History of Money in the Medieval Age

    Edited by Professor Rory Naismith ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed unit of precious metal but in practice precious metal did not necessarily change hands and indeed coinage was very often in short supply. Money had economic, institutional, social, and cultural dimensions which developed the legacy of antiquity and set ... Read more

    $38.89 CAD

  • Early Medieval Monetary History

    Studies in Memory of Mark Blackburn

    by Martin Allen ...
    Series series Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland
    Mark Blackburn was one of the leading scholars of the numismatics and monetary history of the British Isles and Scandinavia during the early medieval period. He published more than 200 books and articles on the subject, and was instrumental in building bridges between numismatics and associated disciplines, in fostering international communication and cooperation, and in establishing initiatives ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Framing the Early Middle Ages

    Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

    by Chris Wickham ...
    The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of ... Read more

    $70.39 CAD

  • The Carolingian World

    by Marios Costambeys, Matthew Innes, Simon MacLean ...
    Series series Cambridge Medieval Textbooks
    At its height, the Carolingian empire spanned a million square kilometres of western Europe - from the English Channel to central Italy and northern Spain, and from the Atlantic to the fringes of modern Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. As the largest political unit for centuries, the empire dominated the region and left an enduring legacy for European culture. This comprehensive survey ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD