Royal Estates in Anglo-Saxon Wessex: Land, politics and family strategies

by Ryan Lavelle

This work, focusing on specific categories of royal estates, concentrates on the later Anglo-Saxon period in England (the mid-ninth century to the mid-eleventh AD). These centuries were a formative period in early medieval history, in which a state can be seen to have developed from a small kingdom to take control of lowland Britain, and, indeed, exert political influence over much of the rest of Britain. The area of this study consists of royal lands...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1407300997
• ISBN13: 9781407300993
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 11.6"