Well I’m reading David Rollason’s Northumbria, 500-11000, Creation and Destruction of a Kingdom ( ISBN 0-521-81335-2, CUP 2003), Chris Wickham’s The Inheritance of Rome, A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 ( ISBN 978-0-140-29014-1, Penguin 2009) and for fiction I expect to read Ross Laidlaw’s Theoderic ( ISBN 978-1-84697-111-2, Polygon 2008) though I should be grateful for opinions on it. I read his Attila or tried to, and wasn’t very impressed.
Also I’m re-reading Mr Pollington’s The English Warrior ( ISBN 1-898281-42-4, Anglo-Saxon Books 1996) and The Warrior’s Way ( ISBN 0-7137-2120-0, Blandford Press 1989) as I’m growing alarmed at the number of basic and simple things I seem to have forgotten, diving in at the deep end to research that kiddies’ book I’m writing.
Like, the Old English sodding-well-did have trousers…