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This classic history covers the period c. 550-1087 and traces the development of English society from the oldest Anglo-Saxon laws, the growth of royal power, and the extension of private lordship to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest.Tags
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This book is indispensable for the serious student of British early medieval history. Stenton's book is full of detail gleaned from many, many resources - truly a labor of love accomplished over several years. It also contains some fascinating bits of letters between heads of state (for example King Offa and Charlemagne) and anecdotes from the period. Fascinating.
An all-encompassing study of Anglo-Saxon England.
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- Canonical title
- Anglo-Saxon England
- Original publication date
- 1943
- People/Characters
- AEthelbald, King of Mercia; Aethelbert, King of Kent; Aethelflaed; Aethelfrith; Aethelred the Unready; Alfred the Great (show all 32); Athelstan; Augustine of Canterbury (Saint); Bede or The Venerable Bede (Saint, Doctor of the Church, 673-735); Cenwalh, King of Wessex; Cnut the Great; Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (Saint, c634 | 687); St. Dunstan; Ealdred, Bishop of Worcester; Edgar the Peaceful; Edward the Confessor; Edward the Martyr; Egbert, King of Wessex; Emma of Normandy; Godwin, Earl of Wessex; Harold II Godwinson; Lanfranc of Canterbury (c. 1005-1089); Odo, Bishop of Bayeux; Offa, King of Mercia; Oswald, King of Northumbria; Penda, King of Mercia; Raedwald, King of East Anglia; Swein Estrithson, King of Denmark; Swein Forkbeard, King of Denmark; Theodore, Archbishop of Canterbury; Tostig; William the Conqueror
- Important places
- England, UK; Wessex (Kingdom of); Mercia (Kingdom of); Kingdom of Northumbria; Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England, UK; Canterbury, Kent, England, UK (show all 22); Danelaw; East Anglia, England, UK; Exeter, Devon, England, UK; Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK; Hereford, Herefordshire, England, UK; Kent, England, UK; Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, UK; Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England, UK; London, England, UK; Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, UK; Strathclyde, Scotland, UK; Worcestershire, England, UK; York, North Yorkshire, England, UK; England, UK; England, UK (Anglo-Saxon period); Lincolnshire, England, UK
- Important events
- Anglo Saxon period
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- [None]
- First words
- PREFACE
It is impossible to give a precise date for the beginning of this volume.
PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION by Doris Mary Stenton
When my husband died on 15 September 1967 he left this third edition of his book unfinished, although he had been working on it for some years.
I
THE AGE OF THE MIGRATION
Between the end of Roman government in Britain and the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms there stretches a long period of which the history cannot be written. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It was not until the Conqueror's power had passed to heirs less scrupulous than himself that the realities behind the symbolism of investiture were forced upon the consciousness of English churchmen.
(3rd ed.).
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But politically, they were the masters of their world.
Epilogue (3rd ed.). - Original language
- English
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 942.01 — History & geography History of Europe England and Wales England Anglo-Saxon B.C. 55 - A.D. 1066
- LCC
- DA152 .S74 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Early and medieval to 1485 Celts. Romans. Saxons. Danes. Normans
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
- 18
