Amy’s Reviews > The Birth of Britain > Status Update

"He [Bede] alone attempts to paint for us...the spectacle of Anglo-Saxon England in its first phase: A Christian England, divided by tribal, territorial, dynastic, and personal feuds...seven kingdoms of varying strength, all professing the Gospel of Christ, and striving over each other for mastery by force and fraud. For almost exactly a hundred years, from 731 to 829, there was a period of ceaseless warfare..."