In a soft-voiced fashion this book offers a strong revisionism of Anglo-Saxon history in the centuries between the creation of the early kingdoms and the emergence of Wessex under Alfred the Great. <br>- Albion <br> - Provides in a readable and accessible form a political history of the early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to the death of Alfred.. <br>- Medieval History <br> A good example of scholarship presented in an accessible and intellectually stimulating way.. <br>- ITeaching History <br>