Rupert Mathews

Ceawlin (eBook, ePUB)

The Man Who Created England

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This provocative study of medieval Britain presents a groundbreaking theory on the collapse of the post-Roman order and the formation of England. In Ceawlin: The Man Who Created England, Rupert Matthews draws on newly available evidence, including written sources and newly uncovered artifacts, to present a radically new narrative of post-Roman Britain. In place of the anarchy and mayhem that comprise conventional accounts of the period, Rupert suggests that Romanized governmental structures managed to survive the fifth century economic collapse. These, he argues, reemerged in a new form in the later sixth century. The key figure in these pivotal events was Ceawlin, King of Wessex in the 570s. It was he who finally smashed the old order with his ambitious power grab. His success opened the way to the creation of the England that we know today with its distinctive culture, language and character.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Military
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781844689378
• Artikelnr.: 37975387

Autorenporträt

Rupert has written over 170 books, appearing on television and radio as a presenter and consultant. These have mostly been on history or military subjects, though in recent years he has been writing about ghosts, cryptozoology, UFOs and other paranormal subjects. Rupert twitters under the name of "rupertmatthews" and has a page on FaceBook as "Rupert Matthews". Rupert blogs about history at http://thehistorymanatlarge.blogspot.com/ and about ghosts, UFOs, unknown animals and other aspects of the unexplained at http://ghosthunteratlarge.blogspot.com/ Rupert was born in Dorking, England, in 1961 and was educated at his local Church of England junior school, then at his local grammar school. He later took up a career in publishing as an editor and writer. He went freelance in 1988 and since then has worked mostly as a writer, columnist and tv presenter. Rupert has established himself as a leading speaker to lunches and dinners, speaking on subjects as varied as RAF?Bomber Command at War; Your Local Ghosts; How Medieval women led society; How the publishing industry works; The Arrowstorm; The Yeti is real!; The real King Arthur; and the biography of Father Christmas. He now lives in Surrey, England, with his wife and daughter.