Quotes About History

The conquest of the Isle of Wight,

all the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms had now accepted the faith of Christ.

the extreme wealth of the elite depended on the aggressive exploitation of the majority of the population, who are for the most part absent from the archaeological and written records.

Æthelwold wrote up their conclusions in a document known as the Regularis Concordia

Cuthbert was consecrated in York as Hexham's new bishop.

whatever their ancestry – assumed all this would last forever, for the empire was eternal.

Alfred's luck could not last forever, and in 875 the viking attack on Wessex was resumed.

within the space of a single lifetime, it was all gone.

King Dagobert, he was a marked man.

and in witnessing the same grant he went even further, referring to himself as 'king of Britain'.

Queen Ælfthryth 'should be the protectress and fearless guardian of the communities of nuns'.

In East Anglia, as we've seen, Rædwald was talked out of Christianity by his wife and advisers.

The most celebrated of all these missionaries was Boniface.

King Sæberht of Essex was succeeded by his pagan sons,

As St Boniface, he has long been regarded as the apostle of Germany,

But the Chronicle for Æthelred's reign was written after its disastrous conclusion,

says the annal for 924, 'King Edward died, and his son Æthelstan succeeded to the kingdom.

they probably became worse after the death of Theodore, who died in September 690 at the advanced age of eighty-eight.

there is no denying that his reign got off to a terrible start with the murder of his brother.

married Eadbald's sister, Æthelburh, for she, unlike her brother,

we have almost no idea of how the vikings saw themselves, because as pagans they were illiterate,

had remained a Christian.

In AD 122, the emperor Hadrian visited Britain

which stretched from the Irish Sea to the North Sea and was studded with forts along its seventy-three-mile length