Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England

by Helena Hamerow

Book Overview

In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of the Anglo-Saxons. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has expanded enormously in recent years - for such settlements from across England and throughout the Anglo-Saxon period, and what it reveals about the communities who built and lived in them, and whose daily...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199203253
• ISBN13: 9780199203253
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: OUP UK
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"