The Emergence of the English

The Emergence of the English

  • Autor: Oosthuizen, Susan
  • Editor: Arc Humanities Press
  • Col·lecció: Past Imperfect
  • ISBN: 9781641891271
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781641891288
  • Lloc de publicació:  York , United Kingdom
  • Any de publicació digital: 2019
  • Mes: Abril
  • Pàgines: 148
  • DDC: 942.01
  • Idioma: Anglés
This book takes a critical approach to the dominant explanation for the transformation from post-Roman to 'Anglo-Saxon' society in Britain from the fifth to the eighth century: that change resulted from north-west European immigration into Britain. After testing this paradigm, the author explores the increasing amount of evidence for the gradual evolution of late Roman into early medieval England, and suggests some new directions for research that may lead to the development of more holistic explanatory models.
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 1 — Introduction
  • Chapter 2 — What Can Reliably Be Said To Be Known about Late Antique and Early Medieval England?
  • Chapter 3 — Ethnicity as an Explanation
  • Chapter 4 — Another Perspective
  • Index

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