Description
| Product ID: | 9780008171988 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Lost Realms |
| Subtitle: | Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings |
| Authors: | Author: Thomas Williams |
| Page Count: | 432 |
| Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, Ancient history, History, Military history, Landscape archaeology, Indigenous religions, spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Medieval history, Military history, Landscape archaeology, Ancient religions & mythologies, England, BCE to c 500 CE, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages … [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. ''A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages … [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light'' Rory Stewart on The Rest is PoliticsFrom the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past.This is the world of Arthur and Urien; of the Picts and Britons and Saxon migration; of magic and war, myth and miracle.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. |
| Imprint Name: | William Collins |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-09-28 |
