King Arthur’s Wars

The Anglo-Saxon Conquest of England

De: Jim Storr

Narrado por: Julian Elfer

The story of an era shrouded in mystery, and the gradual changing of a nation's cultural identity.

We speak English today, because the Anglo-Saxons took over most of post-Roman Britain. How did that happen? There is little evidence: not much archaeology, and even less written history. There is, however, a huge amount of speculation. King Arthur's Wars brings an entirely new approach to the subject - the answers are out there, in the British countryside, waiting to be found.

Months of field work and map study allow us to understand, for the first time, how the Anglo-Saxons conquered England, county by county and decade by decade.

King Arthur's Wars exposes what the landscape and the place names tell us. As a result, we can now know far more about this "Dark Age." What is so special about Essex? Why is Buckinghamshire an odd shape? Why is the legend of King Arthur so special to us? Why don't Cumbrian farmers use English numbers when they count sheep? Why don't we know where Camelot was? Why did the Romano-British stop eating oysters? This book provides a new level of understanding of the centuries preceding the Norman Conquest.

©2016, 2018 Jim Storr (P)2019 Tantor

Not what I expected but still interesting

I expected the book to be more on the battles & wars of the time period than it was. This is pretty heavy on the geography of the battle sites and less so on the battles themselves but it was still interesting and I enjoyed it anyway.

Admitting what is not known or sure

I enjoyed it very much but a pdf with maps would have been extremely helpful

interesting

very in depth topic, on a topic that is largely conjecture.

not sure it was worth the read.

Narrator can't pronounce Old English.

Ya'll should ensure that your narrator can pronounce Old English. It took me 2 minutes to figure out what he was talking about when he was talking about the Hwicce cause he mispronounced it so bad.