Anglo-Saxon Portraits: Thirty ground-breaking men and women of the early English nation - Various

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/431197 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Anglo-Saxon Portraits: Thirty ground-breaking men and women of the early English nation Author: Various Narrator: Barbara Yorke, Michael Wood, Rowan Williams, David Almond, Full Cast, Seamus Heaney Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 7 minutes Release date: November 26, 2020 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1 Genres: Europe Publisher's Summary: The half millennium between the creation of the English nation in around 550 and the Norman Conquest in 1066 was a formative one. This groundbreaking series rediscovers the Anglo-Saxons through vivid portraits of thirty incredible men and women, as told by their contemporary admirers. Nobel prize-winner Seamus Heaney discusses the Beowulf bard; former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams focuses on St Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury; Michael Wood celebrates Penda, the much-maligned last pagan king of England; Barbara Yorke tells the story of Hild of Whitby, the powerful abbess and largely forgotten pre-feminism model; and writer David Almond investigates the oldest surviving English poet, Caedmon. From royalty to peasants, the women behind the Bayeux Tapestry to rebellious nuns, Anglo-Saxon Portraits unravels the mysteries of a too often forgotten period in British history.