Northumbria, 500 1100: Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom

by David W. Rollason

This book deals with the rise and fall of the kingdom of Northumbria. It examines the mechanisms of ethnic, political, social and religious change which, beginning after the end of the Roman Empire, welded the large and disparate area between the Humber and the Firth of Forth into one of the most powerful kingdoms of early medieval England, and those which led to its disintegration and its replacement by political structures of northern England and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521041023
• ISBN13: 9780521041027
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.6"