Anglo-Saxon History: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England) [Hardcover]

David A.E. Pelteret (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0815331401 | ISBN-13: 978-0815331407 | Publication Date: July 6, 2000 | Edition: 1

This text assembles a selection of papers that illustrate the range of insights historians have gained about the Anglo-Saxon era over the past thirty-five years. A number of disciplines, such as archaeology, historical geography, numismatics and place-name studies, have contributed to our knowledge of the history of this period. This volume draws on publications in these fields in order to assemble a collection of essays from diverse sources that can serve to provoke new questions and reveal opportunities for further research. The book will be ideal for teachers who wish to introduce students to Anglo-Saxon history.

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• Hardcover: 300 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (July 6, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0815331401
• ISBN-13: 978-0815331407
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This review is from: Anglo-Saxon History: Basic Readings (Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England) (Hardcover)

1. This text is a compilation of original as well as previously published scholarly articles that deal with aspects of studies in Anglo-Saxon history from a wide variety of disciplines.

2. "Since the 1960s there have been major advances in our understanding of the nature of Anglo-Saxon society. This book assembles a selection of papers, several of which are new or revised for this publication, that illustrate the range of insights historians have gained over the past 35 years about the Anglo-Saxon era. A number of kindred disciplines such as archaeology, historical geography, numismatics and place-name studies have contributed to our knowledge of the history of this period. The volume will draw on publications in these fields in order to assemble a collection of essays from diverse sources that can serve to provoke new questions and reveal opportunities for further research. The book will be ideal for teachers who wish to introduce students to Anglo-Saxon history but whose college libraries have limited resources in this field. And those interested in the early Middle Ages will value having this collection of authoritative studies drawn from
sometimes out-of-print and obscure sources."
-Preface of the General Editors

3. Table of Contents:

a. List of Figures; Table
b. List of Abbreviations
c. Acknowledgements
d. Preface of the General Editors
e. Introduction

[Articles]
1. Anglo-Saxon Institutions and Early English Society
by D.A. Bullough
2. The Social and Political Problems of the Early English Church
by Eric John
3. Bede's Native Sources for the Historia Ecclesiastica
by D.P. Kirby
4. The Development of Military Obligations in Eighth-
and Ninth-Century England
by Nicholas Brooks
5. The Bishops of Winchester, the Kings of Wessex, and
the Development of Winchester in the Ninth and Early Tenth
Centuries
by Barbara A.E. Yorke
6. The Settlers: Where Do We Get Them From- And Do
We Need Them?
by Niels Lund
7. The Declining Reputation of Æthelred the Unready
by Simon Keynes
8. Archbishop Wulfstan and the Holiness of Society
by Patrick Wormald
9. Some Agents and Agencies of the Late-Anglo-Saxon State
by James Campbell

[articles listed as `Special Approaches']

1. "Anthropology"
Concubinage in Anglo-Saxon England
by Margaret Clunies Ross
2. "Archaeology"
Felix Urbs Winthonia: Winchester in the Age of
Monastic Reform
by Martin Biddle
3. "Art History"
A Paean for a Queen: The Frontispiece to the Encomium
Emmae Reginae
by Carol Neuman de Vegvar
4. "Economic and Comparative History"
Early Fairs and Markets in England and Scandinavia
by Peter Sawyer
5. "Geography and Geology"
Mapping the Anglo-Saxon Landscape: A Land-Systems
Approach to the Study of the Bounds of the Estate of
Plaish
by Peter Robinson
6. "Place-Names"
Charltons and Carltons
by H.P.R. Finberg
7. "Topography and Archaeology"
Stamford: The Development of an Anglo-Scandinavian Borough
by Christine Mahany and David Roffe
8. Contributors
9. Index