William Corbett: 3 books
The Cambridge Medieval History - Book XII
The Viking Invasions, the Kingdom of England, and the Western Caliphate
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
THE term Viking is a derivative of the Old Norse Vik, a creek, bay or fiord, and means one who haunts such an opening and uses it as a base whence raids may be made on the surrounding country. The word is now commonly applied to those Norsemen, Danes and Swedes who harried Europe from the eighth to...
by William Corbett
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
IT is not surprising that the Venerable Bede, being a Northumbrian, in his Ecclesiastical History completed about 731, just one hundred years after the conversion of Northumbria to Christianity, should regard Edwin of Deira, the king who had brought about the change, as almost the greatest English...
by Alastair Gunn, William D. O’Connor, James Hain Friswell
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2016
Twenty Christmas ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the second in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 2 in the series spans the years 1836 to 1899, contains...