Northumbria in the Days of Bede by Peter Hunter Blair (HQ169)

Published 1976: First Book Club Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 254 very clean and bright pages. Slight shelf wear on the dust jacket. (HQ169)

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Northumbria in the days of Bede is that rare phenomenon, a scholar's labour of love designed for the widest possible audience.
In this absorbing book, Blair celebrates the brilliance of seventh and eighth century Northumbria. He defines the geography of this first great Anglo-Saxon kingdom, analyses its place names, details its kings; he recalls the lost Gods the Northumbrians still half-believed in after the momentous advent of Christianity....
For more than a century, Northumbria was the centre of European civilisation. [Google Books]