#Into the dark woods book series#

So this starts off whilst the Romans still occupied the land with Boadicea, and then follows the collapse of the Roman Empire and the withdrawal from this country with a chapter that looks at the myths of King Arthur. This is an introduction as such to the Dark Ages in this country, and here we are presented with nine chapters, all on different people and aspects of their reign or legend.

#Into the dark woods book series#

The two series and then this book made the author as such, bringing him to the attention of the public, and he has since remained extremely popular. This book was originally published in 1981 to support and aid with the two series of the same name that Michael Wood wrote and presented, but this has been updated somewhat with a postscript, as some discoveries are still being made and information processed, which may shed some more light on certain events mentioned here. 'With In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV.' The Times 'Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history and archaeology.' Times Literary Supplement Reflecting recent historical, textual and archaeological research, this revised edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy and brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting and formative period in the history of Britain. Here too, warts and all, are the Saxon, Viking and Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England - Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, and William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon England. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans, and King Arthur, the 'once and future king', for whose riddle Wood proposes a new and surprising solution.

This edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating and mysterious centuries between the Romans and the Norman Conquest of 1066.