Light from the Dark Ages (Paperback)

For many years people have been curious to know more about the period often referred to as, "The Dark Ages." On the contrary it was a quite lively period with continual feuding between rival tribes, The West Saxons, the Mercians, the Jutes, Celts and the Picts interspersed by sporadic raids by Sea-Pirates (often from northern Europe.)It was a period where life was indeed,"Nasty, brutish and short.")The focus within these pages is to shed a little more light on the on the life (and death) of the British people from the Roman and Anglo-Saxon era up until the Norman invasion. Selections from Bede, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle' and excerpts from, 'De Excidio et Conquestu Brittanie' gives us more insight into those turbulent times prior to the unification of the tribes of Britain into one nation.