The formation of England, 550-1042 / H.P.R. Finberg
London : Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1974. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #430386
ISBN: 0246107774
Physical description; 253 pages : genealogical table, maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-238) and index.
Contents; Britons at bay -- The struggle for supremacy -- The conversion of the English -- The social structure in early England -- The land -- The Mercian supremacy -- A spiritual empire -- Alfred's England -- Englishmen and Danes -- Monks ascendant -- The reigns of Ethelred and Cnut -- The later Anglo-Saxon landscape -- The social structure in the late Old English period. Subjects; 449-1066. Civilization, Medieval.
Price: €12.95