Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England
Eric John is one of the most distinguished and provocative of Anglo-Saxonists. This new and original analysis is the fruit of thirty years of scholarship and therefore has something of the nature of a testament. Mr John seeks to make use of social anthropological insight to understand the type of primitive people the Anglo-Saxons were and sets them in their European context
Print Book, English, 1996
Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, Manchester, New York, 1996
History
xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm
9780719048678, 9780719050534, 9780752425139, 0719048672, 0719050537, 0752425137
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The beginnings of English society; Anglo-Saxon pagans, saints and sinners; thought and action in the Mercian hegemony; English politics in the ninth century; the West Saxon conquest of England; holiness and hubris; the restoration of learning; the ruin of the House of Cerdic; the northern empire; the avoidance of chaos; gotterdammerung.