Bloodfeud Murder and Revenge in Anglo-Saxon England

by Fletcher, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780195179446
• ISBN10: 0195179447
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

A treacherous murder in northern England on an early spring day in 1016 is used to introduce readers to the world of the aristocratic men and women of Anglo-Saxon England, their violence, their piety, their assumptions and experiences, their hopes and fears. In this book, award-winning author Richard Fletcher illuminates British society and politics in the years around the Norman Conquest, threading together scanty documentary evidence to produce a rich narrative.

Author Biography

Richard Fletcher recently retired from the University of York where he was Professor of History. He is the author seven previous books, among them The Quest for El Cid which won the Wolfson Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for History.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	viii
List of Genealogical Tables	ix
List of Plates	x
Preface	xiii
A Note on Bibliography and References	xv
Wiheal	1	(12)
England	13	(18)
Northumbria	31	(27)
Ethelred the Ill-advised	58	(28)
Millennium	86	(25)
Rise Wood	111	(12)
Ecgfrida's Dowry	123	(19)
Siward and Tostig	142	(21)
Settrington	163	(31)
Haget	194	(11)
Appendix: Chronological Tables	205	(4)
Bibliography	209	(6)
Notes	215	(8)
Index	223