The Bone Chests : William Collins : 9780008447328 : 0008447322 : 14 Sep 2023 : Jarman is masterly in her account of the struggles between Anglo-Saxons and Vikings...Jarman's smart, inventive book shows that the joy of history often lies in posing questions rather than finding answers. - Dan Jones, The Times From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history of the making of England as a nation, told through six bone chests, stored for over a thousand years in Winchester Cathedral. In December 1642, during the Civil War, Parliamentarian troops stormed the magnificent cathedral, intent on destruction. Reaching the presbytery, its beating heart, the soldiers searched out ten beautifully decorated wooden chests resting high up on the stone screens. Those chests contained some of England's most venerated, ancient remains: the bones of eight kings, including William Rufus and Cnut the Great ? the only Scandinavian king to rule England and a North S