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Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England by John, Eric is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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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 people the Anglo-Saxons were and sets them, unusually, in their European context. He starts at the beginnings of English society, looks then at Anglo-Saxon pagans, 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 and the avoidance of chaos. Brilliantly and entertainingly written, this is an interesting and remarkable book.

Who reads Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England?

Author

John, Eric

Publisher

Manchester, UK ; New York: Manchester University Press ; New York: Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719048678

Category

history

Subjects

History, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.82 / 5 (11 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14