Two books in a row that I've been able to follow, enjoy, and not doze off whilst reading. Not doze off too often, anyway. This was an update of a classic, and I may not have read the original but can see how it had changed. The original was built around chapters on 'great men' - Athelstan, Ethelread, William The Conqueror partly I guess because that's the best you can do with the sources we have and partly 'cause that was the mindset once. The updated book takes advantage of new archaeology and scholarship and also brings in other characters, notable women and non-white men from the period who weren't on the radar before.
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