The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction

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.

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).

List of Illustrations	p. vi
List of Maps	p. viii
Introduction	p. ix
The English Settlements	p. 1
The Seventh Century	p. 13
Christianity and the Monastic Culture	p. 23
The Mercian Supremacy	p. 31
The Viking Invasions and the Rise of the House of Wessex	p. 39
Aetherled and Cnut: The Decline of the English Monarchy	p. 57
The End of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom	p. 62
Further Reading	p. 76
Chronology	p. 81
Index	p. 85
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