Title Anglo Saxon England and the Norman Conquest

Edition 2nd ed Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (452 pages) Series Social and Economic History of England Social and economic history of England. Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Introductory Note; Preface; Prefatory Note to the Second Edition; 1. Settlement and Peoples; Sources and political outlines of early settlement; The continuity question; The Anglo-Saxon settlement; Intensification of settlement; The Scandinavian invasions and settlement; The Normans; 2. The European Setting and Overseas Trade; The problem of contact overseas; The early medieval economy; the work of Henri Pirenne; Anglo-Saxon England and overseas trade 3. Internal Trade: the Coinage and the TownsTrade and the king; Commodities of trade; The coinage; The boroughs; 4. The Land; Sources and techniques; The crops and the plough; The open fields in early Anglo-Saxon England; The origin of the manor; Land-tenure; The manor in late Anglo-Saxon England; the 'Rectitudines'; The development of the manor: a summary; 5. Kingship and Nobility; General developments; the question of terminology; 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 6. Church, Learning and LiteratureGeneral achievements and problems; Ecclesiastical organization; The Church and Society; Education, learning and literature; 7. The Major Social Changes; The background to the general problem of social development; Kindred; Secular lordship; The community; 8. The Norman Conquest; 9. England at the End of the Eleventh 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; Bibliography; Index Summary 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 Notes Print version record Subject Normans -- England Anglo-Saxons. HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain. Anglo-Saxons Normans Social conditions SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730 Great Britain -- History -- William I, 1066-1087. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056737 England -- Social conditions -- 1066-1485. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043312 England -- Social conditions -- To 1066. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002599 Subject England Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781317897675 1317897676 9781317897682 1317897684

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