The Anglo-Saxon Age

A Very Short Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-19-285403-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 112 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 114 mm x 179 mm, Gewicht: 103 g

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a brief introduction to the political, social, religious, and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Blair, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: The English settlements

- 2: The seventh century

- 3: Christianity and the monastic culture

- 4: The Mercian supremacy

- 5: The Viking invasions and the rise of the house of Wessex

- 6: Æthelred and Cnut: the decline of the English monarchy

- 7: The end of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom

- Further reading

- Chronology

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Blair is Fellow and Prelector in Modern History, The Queen's College, Oxford. His publications include Early Medieval Surrey (1991), Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire (1994), Ministers and Parish Churches (1988), English Medieval Industries (1991), The Cloister and the World (1996), and The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society (forthcoming).