"Anglo-Saxon Somerset" by Michael Costen
Oxbow Books | 2011 | ISBN: 1842179888 9781842179888 9781842175545 | 273 pages | PDF | 42 MB
The county of Somerset cannot lay claim to have been an Anglo-Saxon kingdom like Kent or Sussex, but nevertheless it has a history as a distinct region which can be traced to the seventh century and there are hints of an earlier entity in the post-Roman period.
Contents Acknowledgements and Thanks
Introduction
1. Post-Imperial Politics: defence and offence
2. Settlement and Soldiers
3. Settlements and Estates
4. Eorl and Ceorl, Theow and Freo
5. Ancient Agriculture
6. Tenth Century Agriculture
7. Early Trade
8. Trade and Town
9. Old Religion
10. The Church Reformed
11. Conclusions
Abbreviations, Manuscript Sources and Bibliography
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks
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