Dark age texts
- On the Ruin and Conquest of Britain by Gildas (540)
- A History of the English Church and People by the Venerable Bede (732)
Anglo-Saxon poetry
- The pleasures of Anglo-Saxon poetry
- Beowulf – the epic
- Beowulf – elements of style
- Beowulf: the Monsters and the Critics by J.R.R. Tolkien (1936)
- Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún by J.R.R. Tolkien
Byzantium
- Count Belisarius by Robert Graves (1938)
- Byzantium: The Early Centuries 320 to 800 by John Julius Norwich (1988)
- Byzantine Emperors 324 to 802
- Byzantium: The Apogee (802 and 1081) by John Julius Norwich (1991)
Modern histories
- The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change 950 to 1350 by Robert Bartlett (1993)
- The Conversion of Europe: 371 to 1386 by Richard Fletcher (1997)
- Early Medieval Art 300 to 1000 by Lawrence Nees (2002)
- In Search of the Dark Ages by Michael Wood (2005)
- Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O’Brien (2005)
- Attila the Hun: Barbarian Terror and the Fall of the Roman Empire by Christopher Kelly (2008)
- The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 by Chris Wickham (2009)
- The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris (2012)
Exhibitions
See also the list of Viking and saga reviews.
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