ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|66 pages

Settlement and Peoples

chapter 2|34 pages

The European Setting and Overseas Trade

chapter 3|51 pages

Internal Trade: the Coinage and the Towns

chapter 4|54 pages

The Land

chapter 5|26 pages

Kingship and Nobility

chapter 6|67 pages

Church, Learning and Literature

chapter 7|27 pages

The Major Social Changes

chapter 8|16 pages

The Norman Conquest

chapter 9|57 pages

England at the End of the Eleventh Century