Granting that you have chosen *not* to include biographies of individual Saxon / Wessex kings, which authors would you be looking at if you'd change your mind?
Thanks! I do plan on starting with Æthelstan (there's two biographies of him), but had I decided to go with his predecessors I would have tried to go all the way back to Cerdic. The problem is that there aren't any biographies of Cerdic, nor of his successors prior to Alfred. Had chosen Alfred as a starting point, though I would have looked at all the extant biographies of him, from Asser's Life down to Richard Abels's more recent work.
Oh, I see -- it's actually a bit of a relief you're planning to start there after all (and that's what I thought I remembered; just wasn't sure after your review). I'll look forward to the Æthelstan bio reviews then.
Re: Alfred the Great, I have two books sitting on my TBR; the first one a biography, the second more of a combination of biography -- possibly not very in-depth -- and a narration related to the discovery of his surviving bones:
Justin Pollard: "Alfred the Great: The Man Who Made England"
Edoardo Albert, Katie Tucker: "In Search of Alfred the Great: The King, The Grave, The Legend"
Just going by name / reputation of the authors and what else you know, any suggestions whose books I might want to take a look at additionally or instead of these? (Richard Abels?)
Granting that you have chosen *not* to include biographies of individual Saxon / Wessex kings, which authors would you be looking at if you'd change your mind?
Re: Alfred the Great, I have two books sitting on my TBR; the first one a biography, the second more of a combination of biography -- possibly not very in-depth -- and a narration related to the discovery of his surviving bones:
Justin Pollard: "Alfred the Great: The Man Who Made England"
Edoardo Albert, Katie Tucker: "In Search of Alfred the Great: The King, The Grave, The Legend"
Just going by name / reputation of the authors and what else you know, any suggestions whose books I might want to take a look at additionally or instead of these? (Richard Abels?)