| Description | | - Most comprehensive and authoritative short guide to the Anglo-Saxon age
- Highly acclaimed text, first published in The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
- Revised and updated for this edition
- Indispensable for students and general readers
| | First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain
, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age
covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a brief introduction to the political, social, religious, and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England.
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Readership: The general reader or student who wants a very short first introduction to the Anglo-Saxon period in British history.
| Contents |
Introduction
1.
The English settlements
2.
The seventh century
3.
Christianity and the monastic culture
4.
The Mercian supremacy
5.
The Viking invasions and the rise of the house of Wessex
6.
Æthelred and Cnut: the decline of the English monarchy
7.
The end of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom
Further reading
Chronology
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
John Blair, Fellow and Prelector in Modern History, The Queen's College, Oxford
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