ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND

This book covers the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. Professor Stenton examines the development of English society, from the growth of royal power to the establishment of feudalism after the Norman Conquest. He also describes the chief phases in the history of the Anglo-Saxon church, including the Conversion of the various English kingdoms, and the unification of Britain by the kings of Mercia and completed by the kings of Wessex. Drawing on many diverse examples-place-names, coins and charters, wills and pleas, archaeology, and the laws of the Anglo-Saxons-the result is a fascinating insight into this period of English history.

Table of contents:

1: The Age of Migration

2: The Kingdoms of the Southern English

3: Anglian Northumbria

4: The Conversion of the English People

5: The English Church from Theodore to Boniface

6: Learning and Literature in Early England

7: The Ascendancy of the Mercian Kings

8: The Age of Alfred

9: The Structure of Early English Society

10: The Conquest of Scandinavian England

11: The Decline of the Old English Monarchy

12: England and the Scandinavian World

13: The Tenth Century Reformation

14: England before the Conquest (i) The Peasants and their Lords, (ii) The Danelaw, (iii) Towns and Trade

15: The Last Years of the Old English State

16: The Norman Conquest

17 - The Norman Settlement:

18: The Reorganization of the English Church

Epilogue: The Anglo-Norman State

Bibliography

Key to Anglo-Saxon Place Names

Index