Anglo-Saxon England / by F.M. Stenton
1955, 2nd edition, 3rd reprint. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Light spotting to the prelims and browning to the edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #427319
Physical description; 747 pages, illustrations, (map) folded, 22 cm. Contents; The age of migration -- The kingdoms of the Southern English -- Anglian Northumbria -- The conversion of the English peoples -- The English church from Theodore to Boniface -- Learning and literature in early England -- The ascendancy of the Mercian kings -- The age of Alfred -- The structure of early English society -- The conquest of Scandinavian England -- The decline of the old English monarchy -- England and the Scandinavian world -- The tenth-century Reformation -- England before the Norman conquest -- The last years of the old English state -- The Norman conquest -- The reorganization of the English church -- Epilogue: The Anglo-Norman state. -- Key to Anglo-Saxon place-names. Subjects; Anglo-Saxons. Anglo-Saxons England History. Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
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