Like other writers in this field, I have done my best to tread a rational path through the minefield of usage. The territory we now call France covered, during the Anglo-Saxon period, various regions with different names, for example Gaul, Neustria, West Francia or Frankia. For some of the artwork that enriches the plates, I am gratefully in the debt of Mr Monaghan, a celebrated draughtsman in the world of stained glass design, who works in partnership with his wife Yvonne.įinally I would like to say thank you to the staff of Cambridge University Library the staff of Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery the Peterborough Central Library and the staff at Yaxley Library, in Cambridgeshire, for their exp For those errors that remain, I am of course to blame.Ī number of the pictures used are thanks to the generous help of my friends Gordon Monaghan and Rex Winsbury, who made many special journeys in pursuit of photographs of crosses and eagles, statues and churches. More personal thanks go to my editors at Constable and Robinson, Becky Hardie and Claudia Dyer to the specialist reader and to David Rose who copy-edited the entire text with great thoroughness to Christopher Shaw for reading the page proofs and Helen Peters, to whom I am indebted for the index. Many others are acknowledged in the notes and bibliography. Of the many distinguished scholars to whose work I am particularly indebted, I would like to mention here: James Campbell, Simon Keynes, the late Patrick Wormald, Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Pauline Stafford, Rosamond McKiterrick, Timothy Reuter, David Rollason and David Hill. This Brief History has drawn on this wealth of publications as well as the classic work of scholars such as Frank Stenton and Dorothy Whitelock to present a rounded and, to the best of my ability, up-to-date account of the history, language and literature of what was undoubtedly one of the most formative cultures in Britain and Europe. Since the publication of the second edition of Peter Hunter Blair’s An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England in 1977 (reprinted in 2003 with a new introduction and updated bibliography), there has been a wide range of books, articles and journals on all aspects of Anglo-Saxon history and culture. Selective Genealogy of the Royal House of Cerdic/Wessex/Englandġ Invaders and Settlers: Beginnings to the Early 600sĦ Alcuin of York and the Continuing Anglo-Saxon Presence on the Continentħ Viking Raiders, Danelaw, ‘Kings’ of Yorkĩ Literature, Learning, Language and Law in Anglo-Saxon Englandġ0 The Hegemony of Wessex: The English Kingdom and Church Reformsġ1 Danish Invasions and Kings: Æthelred ‘Unraed’, Cnut the Great and Othersġ2 Edward the Confessor, the Conquest and the AftermathĪppendix 2: The Death of Harold and His Afterlife?Īppendix 3: Royal Writing Office or Chancery?
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His many books include The Shaping of Europe, Saladin: A Biography, England in the Age of Caxton, The Book of Magna Carta and A Brief History of the Crusades. He is also President of the Society for the History of Medieval Technology and Science of Oxford and London.
From 1994 to 2000 he taught English civilization at the University of Le Havre. He was three times an invited participant at the International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, and has regularly lectured in Europe and America on Medieval social history, European culture and the history of music. GEOFFREY HINDLEY, educated at University College, Oxford is a lecturer and writer.
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