Hello there, I'm looking for good books to pick up on Saxon history. Most of what I've found is listed as "Anglo-Saxon", but I'm looking for history that distinguishes between Saxons and Angles and focuses on the former. Does anybody have any good recommendations? I'm coming across things like Whitlock's "The Warrior Kings of Saxon England" and Humble's "The Fall of Saxon England" - has anybody read these? Are they any good?
I think Britain After Rome by Robin Fleming will be up your alley, and it talks about what the Anglo-Saxon distinction actually means in relation to the tribal/ethnic make up of its people, such as the disparate Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and more, and how they coalesced into a single(ish) coherent(ish) ethnic identity.