Chapters II and III

Adomnan of Iona, Life of St Cuthbert tr, Richard Sharpe (Penguin Classics 1995) 

Asser, Alfred the Great tr. Keynes. S and Lapidge M., (Penguin Classics 2004)

Bede    History of the English Nation (M. Dent & Sons 1965)

Bede, The Age of Bede, Life of Cuthbert; tr. J, F. Webb (Penguin 2004)

Blair, The Anglo-Saxons: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2000)

Bradley, Ian, Colonies of Heaven: Celtic Models for Today’s Church (Darton , Longman and Todd 2012)

Campbell, James ed. The Anglo-Saxons (Penguin 1982)

Cunliffe, Barry, The Celts: A Very Short History (OUP 2003)

Dales, Douglas, Dunstan, Saint and Statesman (Lutterworth, Cambridge 1988)

Dales, Douglas Alcuin: His Life and Legacy

Dales, Douglas, Light to the Isles, (James Clarke & Co 2010)

Eddius, Stephanus, Life of Wilfrid, in The Age of Bede (Penguin 2004)

Fleming, Robin, Britain after Rome, (Penguin 2010)

Foot, Sarah, Athelstan (Yale Monarch Series: Yale University Press 2011)

Gildas, De Excidio Britanniae (The Ruin of Britain) tr. Hugh Williams (Dodo Press 2015)

Gordon, E.V. The Battle of Maldon (Methuen &co Ltd London 1960)

Hamilton Thompson A. ed., Bede: His Life, Times and Writings (OUP 1969)

Heamey , Seamus tr. Beowulf  (Faber &Faber 2000)

Holland, Tom, and Athelstan: The Making of England (Penguin 2016)

Hodgkin R.H., A History of the Anglo Saxons Vols 1 & II (OUP 1967)

Hunter Blair, Peter, The World of Bede (CUP 1990)

Lehane, Brendan, Early Celtic Christianity (Continuum 1994)

Mayr-Harting, Henry, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo Saxon England (Pennsylannia State University Press 1994)

Norwich, John Julius, The Popes (Chatto and Windus 2011)

O’ Croinin, Early Medieval Ireland 400-1200 (Longman 1994)

Rex, Peter, Edward the Confessor (Amberley 20130)

Richards, Julian D., The Vikings: A Very Short Introduction (OUP 2005)

Stenton, F. M., Anglo Saxon England (OUP 1967)