Lost realms

• Verfasst von: Williams, Thomas J. T. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Lost realms
• Titelzusatz: histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings
• Verf.angabe: Thomas Williams
• Ausgabe: Erstausgabe
• Verlagsort: London
• Verlag: HarperCollins Publisher Limited
• Jahr: 2023
• Umfang: 432 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Ilustrationen (schwarzweiß), Karten
• Fussnoten: Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten nn-vv
• ISBN: 978-0-00-817198-8
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 190769322X

Abstract

In Lost Realms, Thomas Williams uncovers the forgotten origins and untimely demise of Britain's ancient kingdoms: lands that hover in the twilight between history and fable, whose stories hum with gods and miracles, with giants and battles and ruin. Why did some realms - like Wessex, Northumbria and Gwynedd - prosper while others fell? And how did their communities adapt to the catastrophic changes of their age? Drawing on Britain ' s ancient landscape and bringing together new archaeological revelations with the few precious fragments of surviving written sources, Williams spectacularly rebuilds a lost past.