The Northern Danelaw
The Northern Danelaw

Author: D.M. Hadley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1441167137

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Investigating the changing nature of lorship and peasant statuses, the transformation of estate structures, the emergence of villages, and the development of the parish system, D. M. Hadley also explains the peculiarities of the northern Danelaw and reassesses the impact of the Scandinavian settlements on its society and culture.A detailed local study is combined with a consideration of wider issues concerning Anglo-Saxon England and lond, and short-term changes unrelated to successive conquests.

Land, Sea and Home
Land, Sea and Home

Author: John Hines

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-26

Total Pages: 616

ISBN-13: 1000161080

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This book provides a realistic historical and geographical perspective to begin closest to the Scandinavian homelands of Vikings and the Viking ideology and material culture, by looking at new research into aspects of their use of the sea, maritime communications and trade.

Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain
Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain

Author: Michael Lapidge

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780197262771

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This volume gathers together obituaries of 28 members of the British Academy who `transformed our knowledge of all aspects of the culture - philological, literary, palaeographical, archaeological, art-historical - of early medieval Britain' during the late 19th and 20th centuries.

Anglo-Saxon England
Anglo-Saxon England

Author: Frank M. Stenton

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks

Published: 2001-06-07

Total Pages: 822

ISBN-13: 9780192801395

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This book covers the emergence of the earliest English kingdoms to the establishment of the Anglo-Norman monarchy in 1087. Professor Stenton examines the development of English society, describes the chief phases in the history of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and studies the unification of Britain begun by the kings of Mercia, and completed by the kings of Wessex. The result is a fascinating insight into this period of English history.

The Domesday Geography of Eastern England
The Domesday Geography of Eastern England

Author: H. C. Darby

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-02-22

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0521893968

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This edition has been considerably revised to take account of further research on this subject and place-name identification. The treatment of statistics for boroughs has been brought into line with the other volumes in this series, a number of maps have been altered, and a short section of 'Vineyards' with one new map has been added to the last chapter.