El. knyga: Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings

PRAISE FOR LOST REALMS





Sceptical, scrupulous, written with wit and flairFinancial Times



This brilliant history of Dark Age Britain mixes serious scholarship with nods to pop culture, from Tolkien to The Wicker Man Lost Realms is a joy to readThe Telegraph, FIVE STAR REVIEW



Williams makes a compelling guide as he steers us through the darkness Spectator



Williams has a fine command of the literary, administrative, religious and archaeological sources of early medieval Britain. He is a diligent scholar and a likeable writer Sunday Times



Thomas Williams is an exceptionally vivid and exciting writer, and his wonderfully evocative recreations are just what the generally impoverished and bewildering evidence for early medieval Britain requires. He is also however a meticulous, honest and fair-minded scholar, and his careful analysis of that evidence, material and textual, always establishes its limitations as well as its potential. His consideration of the losers of Anglo-Saxon state building provides a genuinely original and illuminating perspective on how England came to be Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch



'Thomas Williams has blended a potent brew of mythic and material fragments to raise forgotten kings & queens (and their stories) from the grave. An historian not afraid of the dark and with eyes adapted to it what he sees is assessed sagely and described beautifully' Christopher Hadley, author of Hollow Places