Ebook: Anglo Saxon England and the Norman Conquest

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.;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.