Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England

This historical survey by Peter Hunter Blair treats England from the end of Roman rule through the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to the Norman Conquest of 1066. It covers the settlement of Germanic peoples, conversion to Christianity, Viking attack and the making of a single English kingdom, and the workings of church, monarchy, local government, and economy. Written evidence, archaeology, and place-names are used together. Although the present title suggests a reach into later medieval centuries, the book is Hunter Blair's account of Anglo-Saxon England as a political and cultural formation, ending with the Conquest.

22 pages of colour and black & white plates. Sixteen pages of colour plates reproducing details of illuminated manuscripts, a stained glass window and the Mappa Mundi. Twelve leaves of colour and black & white plates.