The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

By Anne Savage,

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The authentic voices of England, from the time of Julius Caesar to the coronation of Henry 2nd.

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This book covers the entirety of the history of the Anglo-Saxons in their own words. Like Bede’s History, it suffers from bias, depending on the scribe writing each section and what kingdom they inhabited, but it is a fascinating year-by-year account of the rise and fall of kings and clergy, and of the battles and natural phenomena faced by the people of early medieval Britain.

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