Mary Ann Bernal

  The court of Alfred the Great was Christian, deferring to the Pope in Rome for religious guidance. King Alfred rigorously enforced the Chu...

  …Filled with intrigue, betrayal, hate, and love, The Briton and the Dane: Legacy by Mary Ann Bernal is as breathtakingly poetic, as it is ...

The Briton and the Dane novels bring to life the tumultuous ninth century when the formidable Vikings terrorized the civilized world...

Whispered by the wise and the learned. Talked of in hushed tones round luminous firesides. Engraved by awestruck scribes in the sc...

Two years have passed since Alfred the Great successfully defeated Guthrum, King of the Vikings. The fair land of England is at...

King Alfred the Great has thwarted the Viking threat against his kingdom of Wessex. Signing a treaty with the formidable Danish King G...

Finalist  The Coffee Pot Book Club Book of the Year The Historical Fiction Book of the Year  Early Medieval Travel back in ti...

History Extra Æthelstan is shown dressed as a pilgrim with Guy of Warwick in a scene from the 14th-century 'Chronicle of England...

History Extra In 878 King Alfred had to flee for his life when Twelfth Night celebrations at his residence in Chippenham, Wiltshire, we...

Ancient Origins Archaeologists have recently uncovered the traces of a millennium old building at the location of the Pictish fort of B...

Ancient Origins The UK now has a female prime minister and Elizabeth II has been queen for more than six decades, but few would associa...