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IN SEARCH OF THE DARK AGES - MICHAEL WOOD KARTO...

Updated with the latest archaeological research new chapters on the most influential yet widely
unrecognised people of the British isles  In Search of the Dark Ages illuminates the
fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066. In
this new edition  Michael Wood vividly conjures some of the most important people in British
history such as Hadrian  a Libyan refugee from the Arab conquests and arguably the most
important person of African origin in British history  to Queen Boadicea  the leader of a
terrible war of resistance against the Romans. Here too  warts and all  are the Saxon  Viking
and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England: Offa of Mercia  Alfred the
Great  Athelstan  and William the Conqueror  whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end
of Anglo-Saxon England. Reflecting the latest historical  textual and archaeological research 
this revised and updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the
Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era  showing them to be a richly exciting and formative
period in the history of Britain.

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