CiNii Books - Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest

This celebrated account of society and economy in England from the first Anglo-Saxon settlements in the fifth century to the immediate aftermath of the Norman Conquest has been a standard text since it first appeared in 1962. This long-awaited second edition incorporates the fruits of 30 years of subsequent scholarship. It has been revised expanded and entirely reset.

Table of Contents

List of maps. List of abbreviations. Introductory note. Preface. Prefactory Note to the second edition. 1. Settlement and peoples. 2. The European setting and overseas trade. 3. Internal trade: the coinage and the towns. 4. The land. 5. Kingship and nobility. 6. Church, learning and literature. 7. The major social changes. 8. The Norman Conquest. 9. England and the end of the 11th Century. Bibliography. Index.

Volume: : hard ISBN 9780582072978

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This book gives an account of the social and economic developments in Anglo-Saxon England from the first settlements in the fifth and sixth centuries to the immediate aftermath of the Norman conquest. The basic structure of analysis rests on the surviving legal and literary evidence, buttressed by the latest findings of archaeologists, numismatists, and art historians. In nearly 30 years since the first edition there has been great advance in knowledge, notably on the numismatic side, but the main themes remain constant and deal with a steady development from tribal institutions where the social power of the kindred is dominant towards the creation of a territorial kingdom where the chief bonds that keep a community together concern lordship in all its attributes. The part that kingship and the Christian church played in legitimizing an ordered society, notably in the last century and a half of Anglo-Saxon England, is properly emphasized. Attention is paid also to much recent work on themes such as the nature of the earliest political groupings, the implications of the Sutton Hoo burial site, the possibility of a mid-Saxon settlement shift, the wider consequences of the tenth-century reformation, and the nature and purpose of Domesday Book. Throughout full weight is placed on the European context within which English developments played a special role, deeply similar in many respects to Carolingian Frankie or Ottonian Germany but with a peculiar insular flavour of their own.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Settlements and peoples: sources and political outlines of early settlement
the Anglo-Saxon settlement
the Scandinavian invasions and settlement
the Normans. Part 2 The European setting and overseas trade: the early medieval economy
the work of Henri Pirenne
Anglo-Saxon England and overseas trade. Part 3 Intenal trade - the coinage and the towns: trade and the King
commodities of trade
the coinage
the boroughs. Part 4 The land: the open fields in early Anglo-Saxon England
the origin of the manor
land tenure
the manor in late Anglo-Saxon England
the rectitudines. Part 5 Kingship and nobility: the age of the conversion
from conversion to the reign of Alfred
the nobility in late Anglo-Saxon England
the manner of life of the nobility. Part 6 Church, learning and literature: ecclesiastical organization
the church and society
education, learning and literature. Part 7 The major social changes: the background to the general problem of social development
kindred
secular lordship
the community. Part 8 The Norman conquest. Part 9 England at the end of the 11th century: the rural economy
Domesday Book
the manor of Domesday Book
the peasants of Domesday Book
sources of wealth, other than arable
towns and boroughs.

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