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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Pauline Stafford |
ISBN: | 0713166193 9780713166194 0713165324 9780713165326 |
OCLC Number: | 185748564 |
Description: | vi, 232 s. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part 1: historical writing in England, late 9th to early 12th century; Edward to Eadred, 899 to 955; Eadwig to Athelred II, 955 to 1016; Cnut and his sons, 1016 to 1042; Edward the Confessor to Harold, 1042 to 1066; 1066 and after; England and its neighbours. Part 2: ruling the kingdom; the nobility; family, marriage and women; the Church; the economy. |
Responsibility: | Pauline Stafford. |
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"Insightful and firmly grounded in the sources, it is not simply another 'survey' of late Saxon England. Rather, it is an interpretation of the political and social history of the period, a reasoned explanation of the emergence of the English nation, the growth of effective kingship in early England, and the essential continuity of political and social structures between the Anglo-Saxon and the medieval periods."The great virtue of the work is its refusal to see late Old English history as the prelude to the Norman Conquest. This view of the past seen in its own terms makes for a vivid picture of a rich and varied society."--History "Insightful and firmly grounded in the sources, it is not simply another 'survey' of late Saxon England. Rather, it is an interpretation of the political and social history of the period, a reasoned explanation of the emergence of the English nation, the growth of effective kingship in early England, and the essential continuity of political and social structures between the Anglo-Saxon and the medieval periods. "The great virtue of the work is its refusal to see late Old English history as the prelude to the Norman Conquest. This view of the past seen in its own terms makes for a vivid picture of a rich and varied society."--History "Insightful and firmly grounded in the sources, it is not simply another 'survey' of late Saxon England. Rather, it is an interpretation of the political and social history of the period, a reasoned explanation of the emergence of the English nation, the growth of effective kingship in early England, and the essential continuity of political and social structures between the Anglo-Saxon and the medieval periods. "The great virtue of the work is its refusal to see late Old English history as the prelude to the Norman Conquest. This view of the past seen in its own terms makes for a vivid picture of a rich and varied society."--History "Insightful and firmly grounded in the sources, it is not simply another 'survey' of late Saxon England. Rather, it is an interpretation of the political and social history of the period, a reasoned explanation of the emergence of the English nation, the growth of effective kingship in earlyEngland, and the essential continuity of political and social structures between the Anglo-Saxon and the medieval periods."The great virtue of the work is its refusal to see late Old English history as the prelude to the Norman Conquest. This view of the past seen in its own terms makes for a vivid picture of a rich and varied society."--History Read more...

