Overview

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.