Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxons - name given to the Germanic-speaking peoples who settled in England after the decline of Roman rule there. They were first invited by the Celtic King Vortigern, who needed help fighting the Picts and Scots. The Angles (Lat. Angli), who are mentioned in Tacitus' Germania, seem to have come from what is now Schleswig in the later decades of the 5th cent. Their settlements in the Read More...
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Anglo-Saxon England
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Anglo-Saxon Military Institutions: On the Eve of the Norman Conquest
by C. Warren Hollister. 170 pgs.
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Angles, Angels, and Conquerors, 400-1154 ("The Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy" begins on p. 10)
by Joel T. Rosenthal. 216 pgs.
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Alfred the Great (Chap. Five "King Alfred and his Rule in Wessex")
by Eleanor Shipley Duckett. 224 pgs.
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