This revised edition of the classic text of the period provides both the student and the specialist with an informative account of post-Roman English society. After a general survey of the main developments from the fourth century to the eleventh, the book offers analysis of: * social organization * the changing character of kingship, of royal government and the influence of the church * the history of settlement * the making of the landscape * the growth of towns and trade * the consequences of the Norman Conquest. The author also considers the various influences; British, Frankish, Viking and Christian that helped shape English society and contributed to the making of a united kingdom.

"From Roman Britain to Norman England" is a general survey of the main developments in the region from the fourth century to the eleventh. P. H. Sawyer takes an analytical approach, devoting chapters to social organization, the changing character of kingship, the royal government and the power of the church. Particular attention is paid to the history of settlement, the making of the landscape, the growth of towns and trade that made eleventh century England one of the most highly urbanized areas of western Europe. Sawyer also emphasizes the influence of British, Roman, Frankish, Viking and Christian that helped shape English society and contributed to the making of the United Kingdom. There is a full bibliography and the text is complemented by maps that provide a detailed informative account of the post-Roman English society.

Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and history of the Christian conversion.

Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and history of the Christian conversion.

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This second volume in the "Anglo-Saxon Charters" series contains the thirty-eight documents from the archives of the Abbey of Burton upon Trent. These charters, which date from the tenth and eleventh centuries, include the will of Wulfric and an important group of single sheets discovered in the twentieth century. There are facsimiles of portions of these five documents, and fifteen chrismons are reproduced from the Burton Cartulary in the National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 390.