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	Encyclopedia: Anglo Saxon
		This usage is despite the fact that there was considerable immigration into England throughout the many hundreds of years between the Anglo_Saxon invasions and the 20th century, so that those to whom the term is applied are by no means of 'pure' Anglo-Saxon ancestry.
		West Saxon writers regularly speak of their own nation as a part of the Angelcyn and of their language as Englisc, while the West Saxon royal family claimed to be of the same stock as that of Bernicia in the north.
		The label "Saxons" was generally applied to German settlers who migrated during the 13th century to south-eastern Transylvania in present-day Romania, where their descendants numbered a quarter of a million in the early decades of the 20th century.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Anglo_Saxon (1883 words)

	England Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ AlienArtifacts.com
		Until recently it has been believed that those areas settled by the Anglo-Saxons were uninhabited at the time or the Britons had fled before them.
		England is named after the Angles, one of a number of Germanic tribes believed to have originated in Angeln in Northern Germany, who settled in England in the 5th and 6th centuries.
		England comprises the central and southern two-thirds of the island of Great Britain, plus offshore islands of which the largest is the Isle of Wight.
	www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/England (5079 words)

	History of England, The Anglo Saxon Period
		Other kingdoms were those of the East Saxons (Essex); the Middle Saxons (Middlesex), and the West Saxons, (Wessex) destined to become the most powerful of all and one that eventually brought together all the diverse people of England (named for the Angles) into one single nation.
		His history shows the stages by which the Anglo-Saxon people became Christian.
		Be that as it may, the emergence of England as a nation did not begin as a result of a quick, decisive victory over the native Britons, but a result of hundreds of years of settlement and growth, more settlement and growth, sometimes peaceful, sometimes not.
	www.britannia.com /history/narsaxhist.html (3805 words)

	Thoughts on the Historical Causes of Secularization
		These movements were not without their own faults, and arguably contained the seeds of an eventual further descent into secularism and sectarianism, but that is beyond my immediate point, which is simply that Protestant revivalism has been a considerably powerful force against secularism and irreligion, and towards a Christian worldview with culturally-transformative power and import.
		It is impossible to ignore this dark and tragic side of religious history; for if we do not face it, we cannot understand the inevitable character of the movement of secularization.
		After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the necessity for the co-existence of Catholics and Protestants in Europe became generally recognized, and since men still valued their common culture they were forced to emphasize those elements which were common to Catholics and Protestants, i.e., its secular aspects.
	ic.net /~erasmus/RAZ32.HTM (3003 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: England
		Henry III of England: Complaints of Heavy Taxation, 1230 Matthew of Westminster: Simon de Montfort's Rebellion, 1265.
		Roger of Hoveden: The Chronicle: On the Disputes between Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury and King Henry II of England, early 13th c.
		King John of England and the Jews: Charters, c.1201
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook1n.html (1994 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Anglo-Saxon Church
		Although not much is known of the history of the missions in Sweden and Norway, it has lately been shown by such scholars as Taranger and Freisen, alike from linguistic and liturgical considerations, that the impress of the Anglo-Saxon Church is everywhere recognizable in the Christian institutions of the extreme North.
		In England the Saxons, after establishing themselves in the south and east, in the localities now represented by Sussex and Essex, founded a great kingdom in the West which gradually absorbed almost the whole country south of the Thames.
		It is quite possible that the general prevalence in England of lay patrons with the right to present to benefices is to be traced to the fact that the parish church in so many cases originated in the private oratory of the lord of the township.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01505a.htm (5846 words)

	domesday
		The outcome of that speech was the mission throughout all England of 'barons,' 'legates' or 'justices' charged with the duty of collecting from the verdicts of the shires, the hundreds and the vills a descriptio of his new realm.
		A careful examination of all England vill by vill would perhaps show that the contrast which we are noting is neither so sharp nor so ancient as at first sight it seems to be: nevertheless it exists.
		Domesday Book and Beyond: Three Essays in the Early History of England by F.W. Maitland Essay One Domesday Book At midwinter in the year 1085 William the Conqueror wore his crown at Gloucester and there he had deep speech with his wise men.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/maitland/domesday (15196 words)

	Regia Anglorum - A Brief History of Anglo-Saxon England
		The year 793 marked a major change for England with the first major raid by Vikings on the Northumbrian monastery at Lindisfarne (although there is evidence of a small raid four years earlier in Devon).
		Of the seven Saxon Kingdoms (the Heptarchy), the first one to achieve supremacy was Northumbria, whose high culture during the seventh century is reflected in such works as the Lindisfarne Gospels.
		The division of England, giving Edmund Wessex and Cnut the North, was nullified by Edmund's death in 1016 so the Viking Cnut was left to rule all England.
	www.regia.org /history.htm (3171 words)

	Anglo Saxon Britain, Viking raids and the Norman invasion
		Eventually the Anglo Saxon mercenaries realised that they were stronger than their employers and appear to have taken over the running of areas themselves.
		The new Anglo Saxon invaders were not organised centrally, as the Romans had been, or as the Normans would be.
		The Anglo Saxon areas eventually combined into kingdoms, and by 850 AD the country had three competing kingdoms as shown on the map on the left
	www.great-britain.co.uk /history/ang-sax.htm (704 words)

	All About Romance Novels - Scottish Monarchs of the Middle Ages
		England is divided along a northwest axis so that the Danes rule north of the line (area became known as the Danelaw) and English rule south of it
		Social and Political History of England from AD400-c1066.
		This period is often referred to as the Heptarchy because of the seven kingdoms established by the invaders: Wessex, Mercia, Essex, East Anglia, Sussex, Northumbria and Kent.
	www.likesbooks.com /anglosaxon.html (2057 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Anglo Saxon kings
		Throughout the Anglo-Saxon period the succession was frequently contested, by both the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy and leaders of the settling Scandinavian communities.
		In England, Mercia and later Wessex came to dominate, giving rise to the start of the monarchy.
		His influence extended both north and south of the river Humber: his nephew became king of the East Saxons and his daughter married king Edwin of Northumbria (died 633).
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page14.asp (475 words)

	Anglo-Saxon Britain - map and history
		We know very little of the first several hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon, or "English", era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people.
		We know that they established separate kingdoms, the Saxons settling in the south and west, the Angles in the east and north, and the Jutes on the Isle of Wight and the mainland opposite.
		The 9th century may well have turned into a struggle for the upper hand between Mercia and Wessex if not for one thing; England was once again the subject of recurring raids from across the seas.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/Anglo-Saxon_Britain.htm (689 words)

	Medieval and Renaissance Marriage:
		The joining of hands to seal the betrothal was common in Anglo-Saxon England as well, as is evidenced by the use of the term "handfasting" in Scotland and Northern England to refer to a betrothal (Anton 91).
		The Church of England, however, continued to recognize clandestine marriages as late as the eighteenth century (Brooke 250) and in Scotland it was possible to marry by the exchange of consent in the presence of witnesses until 1940 (Anton 99).
		England, however, is quite possibly the first place we see the ceremony taking place inside the church.
	www.drizzle.com /~celyn/mrwp/mrwed.html (7919 words)

	mepage.htm
		The Norman Conquest fuses French and English cultures because William is both the King of England and the Duke of Normandy.
		Aside from this event, Henry II is considered one of England's greatest kings due to his judicial reforms and legal innovations.
		He is quickly made a martyr by the English public and is revered as the greatest saint of English history.
	eawc.evansville.edu /chronology/mepage.htm (6319 words)

	Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation: Western Civilization, Act II
		Hostility between France and England erupted in 1337 when Edward III of England refused homage to France which sparked messy feud between England and France for 100 years.
		A History and Mythos of the Knights Templar
		To speak about this battle without recourse to the events that led up to it would be an injustice to the people of this island who have fought and died for her.
	www.omnibusol.com /medieval.html (13402 words)

	Medieval English urban history
		Rural and urban elites in England during the later Middle Ages
		The Edict of Expulsion of 1290, expelling the Jews from England
		A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume IV.
	www.trytel.com /~tristan/towns/towns.html (1765 words)

	King Alfred the Great
		He defended Anglo-Saxon England from Viking raids, formulated a code of laws, and fostered a rebirth of religious and scholarly activity.
		His reign exhibits military skill and innovation, sound governance and the ability to inspire men and plan for the future, piety and a practical commitment to the support of religion, personal scholarship and the promotion of education.
		Unfortunately not available online, but Churchill's histories can often be found in second-hand bookstores at reasonable prices.
	www.mirror.org /people/ken.roberts/king.alfred.html (907 words)

	Anglo-Saxon England
		Essays on the Anglo-Saxons in England, from their traditional arrival in AD 449 to the Norman Conquest in 1066
	itsa.ucsf.edu /~snlrc/britannia/anglosaxonengland.html (19 words)

	BBC - History - Anglo Saxons
		For an instant sense of Anglo-Saxon history, absorb the atmosphere of Malmesbury Abbey, where William of Malmesbury lies buried.
		The tale of Lady Godiva may not be historically true, but she did live, and this story tells us something of the world she inhabited.
		Medieval kings had to be sensitive, clever and flexible if they were to hold on to power - find out which ones made the grade.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/anglo_saxons/index.shtml (187 words)

	Anglo-Saxon England
		Anglo-Saxon England is recognised internationally as the foremost regular publication in its field.
		In fact it is the only one which consistently embraces all the main aspects of study of Anglo-Saxon history and culture — linguistic, literary, textual, palaeographic, religious, intellectual, historical, archaeological and artistic — and which promotes the more unusual interests — in music or medicine or education, for example.
		Especially it seeks to exploit the advantages of a broadly based interdisciplinary approach.
	uk.cambridge.org /journals/ase (179 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alfred the Great
		Alfred made Wessex a rallying point for all the Saxons and by freeing the country of the invaders unwittingly unified England and prepared the way for the eventual supremacy of his successors.
		He translated into Anglo-Saxon: "The Consolation of Philosophy" of Boëthius; "The History of the World" of Orosius; the "Ecclesiastical History" of Bede, and the "Pastoral Rule" and the "Dialogues" of St.
		His own estimate of what he did for the regeneration of England is modest beside the authentic history of his deeds.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01309d.htm (931 words)

	Timeline of Anglo Saxon England 597 AD-687 AD
		The authority of the latter are disputed by the Saxon Church.
		He also insists that they help in the conversion of their enemy, the Saxons, and look to Canterbury as their spiritual centre.
		Augustine lands in Kent and is welcomed by King Aethelbert whose Frankish Queen is already a Christian practicing at her church of St. Martin's, Canterbury.
	britannia.com /history/saxontime.html (5956 words)

	Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England: Home
		The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) was funded for five years (2000-4) by the AHRB (now the AHRC).
		PASE’s co-directors were Janet L. Nelson (Department of History, King’s College, London) and Simon Keynes (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge), and its technical director was Harold Short (the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London).
		All the technical research and development was carried out in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s by John Bradley and Hafed Walda.
	www.pase.ac.uk (199 words)

	Anglo-Saxon England. Settlement - rural and town life
		What seems to have happened in the earlier centuries of Anglo-Saxon England is that these functions were carried out, but rather than being brought together as in the towns of Roman Britain and of the later Middle Ages, in many cases they were dispersed.
		Some scholars see early- and middle-Anglo-Saxon England as composed of landed units smaller than the modern shire but thought to underlie districts confusingly known in the north of England and Scotland as shires: Howdenshire, and Richmondshire, for example.
		Large, large strip fields from the Carolingian period have been identified in Saxony which are similar to strip fields found in England.
	www.le.ac.uk /elh/grj1/asl.html (3943 words)

	Britannia: Timelines of British History
		History of Arthurian (5 & 6th century) Britain and beginning of development of the legend: Saxon wars, Ambrosius, Vortigern, Mt. Badon, Mordred, Camlann, heroic poems, British chronicles, adoption of Arthur by Saxons.
		The coming of St. Augustine, triumph of Rome-oriented Christianity, Saxon control of island, rise of Mercia, Offa's Dyke.
		This section presents the sweep of British history in chronological form, broken down into discrete time periods.
	britannia.com /history/timelines.html (497 words)

	Canadian Journal of History: Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, The
		As one would expect, the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England provides enough articles on the more recondite aspects of Anglo-Saxon England not found in the Garland publication (for example, the article on "bone working" and the article "Aelfwine, Prayerbook of') to warrant its purchase by libraries as a specialized reference for the Anglo-Saxon period.
		The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England should be compared to another excellent recent publication: Medieval England: An Encyclopedia, edited by Paul E. arbachm, M. Teresa Tavormina, and Joel T. Rosenthal (New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1998).
		Unlike The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, this volume covers the entire medieval period and is edited by American scholars.
	www.24hourscholar.com /p/articles/mi_qa3686/is_200104/ai_n8939280 (563 words)

	History of the Monarchy > The Anglo-Saxon kings > Harold II
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		In September, Harald Hardrada of Norway (aided by Harold's alienated brother Tostig, Earl of Northumbria) invaded England and was defeated by Harold at the Battle of Stamford Bridge near York.
		Hardrada's army had invaded using over 300 ships; so many were killed that only 25 ships were needed to transport the survivors home.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/Page41.asp (253 words)

	Angelcynn: The History of Anglo-Saxon England
		AncientWorlds > Germania > Groups > Angelcynn: The History of Anglo-Saxon England
		The history of the Germanic kingdoms of England, from the Saxon Advent to the Norman Conquest.
		Between the Saxon Advent and the Battle of Hastings, half a millennium passed, and the nation of England was born.
	www.ancientsites.com /aw/Group/32408 (193 words)

	SDK HOMEPAGE
		The section headed 'Materials for the study of Anglo-Saxon England' is intended to illustrate the variety of source material at our disposal, and forms part of a webpage directed towards prospective candidates for admission to read the Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic Tripos.
		A joint project of the Department of History, King's College London, and the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, University of Cambridge.
		This website was set up in March 1997, on a server at Trinity College, Cambridge, UK, and is maintained for the intended benefit of those studying Anglo-Saxon history in the University of Cambridge or elsewhere.
	www.trin.cam.ac.uk /sdk13/asindex.html (935 words)

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