Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

In this lecture the Professor looks at the political changes and developments in Britain during the Post Roman and Pre Viking Era 500-750 A.D or C.E. This period has been typically called controversially ''The Dark Ages'' but now tends to be referred to as the Early Middle Ages. Revolving around the early development of the Anglo Saxon Kingdoms of Britain. The Heptarchy is the primary focus of this lecture and so it will give a brief overview of Medieval Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex and Wessex.

Attribution: Bilkent University's Department of History focuses on graduate studies, offering M.A. and Ph.D. programs in the areas of Ottoman, European and the U.S.A. history. Begun in 1993, the Department boasts an International faculty trained at some of the leading Universities in Europe, North America and Turkey. The Department serves an international student body with students from Belgium, Bulgaria, Romania, Russia, Turkey and the U.S.A. currently enrolled.

[studyofantiquityandthemidd]

What are your thoughts on the history and myth surrounding the establishment of the early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms?

[mrich]

Never cared about this while I was in school. Now that I’m pushing 50, I can’t get enough! Great lecture.

[ScrapironRyann]

Brilliant lecture I screamed the answer out about Wessex but no one could hear me, ill watch all your stuff now

[mrdarren]

Really enjoy this guys lectures. Something oddly relaxing about them.

[jackiereynolds]

The best look at 'old' England I've seen since

[MyRealName]

Anything by dr. Kenneth harl or Eric Kline? Other viewers would be interested in listening to either of these men. You always have such great content.

[donberry]

Noone watches history as a hobby who doesn't love and value it. Its distressing how willfully ignorant many choose to be today in the face of so much readily available scholarship and teaching. Last year I heard an English kid complain that the Blitz and WW2 weren't relevant to his generation, why study it? You hear so many say similar, world wide.

[willackerman]

I love this guy. Seems like somebody finally had him pull the mic away from his shirt in this one!

[chochonubcake]

the content is great; I sure wish those maps were in focus.

[ttrovr]

I wish my school would learn about these types of things because this is my type of stuff geography and history and politics

[andrewclayton]

Interesting about the alliteration point. Almost all the king's of Wessex begin their names with an E, couple with an A. ( same thing if ae is being used.) Woder if it was a fashion thing. A sign of worthiness. Copying the names of previous rulers has always been popular, hence some high regnal numbers attached to some names.

[benziescha]

What similarities or common enemies/causes brought the Heptarchy into being? Or was there just a long period of battles between them all ending in stalemates? I guess what I'm asking is what made them collectively "Anglo-Saxon"?

[joseferrymatias]

It is an excellent study about ancient history, informative measures so that you must understand what's the differences till you find the nature of humanity, I think what I thought was POWER AND ECONOMY. STRUGGLE FOR LIFE.

[SARHistories]

Really interesting! Wish I had a teacher like this when I was at school.

[kayharker]

I suspect Bilkent University is in Kent - perhaps close to Portland Bill.

[forearmsmcgee]

Could you do videos of individual profiles of the people mentioned?

[johnnykumara]

Wow im from srilanka a would like to study more about king aethelwolf and kingdom of wessex

[joni]

Could the family name of Wick originate from Saxony or is it Celtic-British. The name is also known in Germany-Austria, and even family weapon shields, or knights weapon shields with that name emerge there.

[pm]

Place names ending in "-ing" are found in Denmark too and are some of the oldest. As far as I know it's just an inflection and doesn't have it's own meaning.

[welshed]

Where is the next part of the lecture? I need it.