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Sinopsis
A clear, evidence-based look at how England began, from Roman withdrawal to the shaping of early kingdoms.
The Making of England offers a concise, readable account of Britain’s earliest centuries. It blends archaeological finds, geography, and written sources to trace how the island’s peoples organized, defended, and settled their lands. The author explains how maps and physical features helped define borders, and how gaps in written records are handled with careful reasoning. This edition also highlights the role of material evidence and the views of earlier historians to illuminate life in the seventh and eighth centuries without getting lost in speculation.
What you will experience- A focused narrative of the major waves of conquest and settlement along the Saxon shore and beyond.
- Clear explanations of how geography and archaeology shape our understanding of Britain’s past.
- An accessible discussion of sources, especially bishop Baeda, and how they contribute to social and political history.
- Insight into the evolution of early English polities and the growth of regional identities.
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Britain, and in wmch their political and social life took the form which it still retains. The centuries of administrative organization which stretch from Ecgberht to Edward the First, the age of full national development which extends from Edward's day to our own, only become intelligible to us when we have fully grasped this age of national formation. I cannot but feel, therefore, that it is no slight misfortune that such a period should remain comparatively unknown, and that its struggles, which were in reality the birth-throes of our national life, should be still to most English men, as they were to Milton, mere battles of kites and of crows.
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Severn to theW ye. We are in the same utter darkness as to the advance of theE nglish over the upper valley of theS evern. At the end of the sixth century, their March or borderland only reached to the line of water-parting which forms the eastern boundary of that vale, and we hear nothing of their advance over it till almost the close of the eighth century, when the conquests ofO ffa carry their frontier toO ffa sD yke on the west of Shropshire. Here, however, the map itself helps us. Cheshire had become English at the beginning of the seventh century, while Herefordshire wasE nglish by the middle of it, and a glance at the map will show how inevitably these two facts imply a corresponding advance of the intervening frontier, as I have drawn it, to the course of theS evern. In the same way we have hardly anything to throw light on the advance of theW est-S axons across Dorsetshire. All we know is, that it could not have begun till about the middle of the sixth century, and that it was certainly completed by the beginning of the eighth. Difficulties of another kind presented themselves in accurately defining the political relations of one or two of the smaller states, such asS ussex orE ssex, about which through long periods of time we have little or no information.
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