Anglo-Saxon England
1962, Second Edition, Fourth Printing. Oxford : Clarendon Press. Good cloth library copy in a very good if slightly edge-nicked and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Front free endpaper lacking. Light foxing to edges and prelims; some library marks remain. A well-preserved example overall; internally strong and clean. Item #477788
Physical description; vii, 747 pages : maps (1 folded) ; 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 679-713) and index. 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 Norman settlement – The reorganization of the English church – Epilogue: The Anglo-Norman state – Key to Anglo-Saxon place-names. Subjects; Great Britain – History – Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. Anglo-Saxons – History – 20th century. England – Civilization – 449-1066.
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