Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England

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In a late portion of the text it says that Byrhtnoth was dux of Northumbria. This late Ely material was drawing on much earlier material because all of what he says can be corroborated except Byrhtnoth's promotion. Even here the poem says that  ...

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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.

^ Eric John (1996). Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England ISBN 9780719050534 (revised Sep 2015)