A Social History of England, 900–1200The years between 900 and 1200 saw transformative social change in Europe, including the creation of extensive town-dwelling populations and the proliferation of feudalised elites and bureaucratic monarchies. In England these developments were complicated and accelerated by repeated episodes of invasion, migration and changes of regime. In this book, scholars from disciplines including history, archaeology and literature reflect on the major trends which shaped English society in these years of transition and select key themes which encapsulate the period. The authors explore the landscape of England, its mineral wealth, its towns and rural life, the health, behaviour and obligations of its inhabitants, patterns of spiritual and intellectual life and the polyglot nature of its population and culture. What emerges is an insight into the complexity, diversity and richness of this formative period of English history. |
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Frontispiece Horse harness pendants c 1200 | 39 |
Urban castles at York and Nottingham | 192 |
11a The ship list of William the Conqueror | 212 |
16a Burial casket of Gundrada of Warenne | 305 |
A late eleventhcentury herbal produced at the abbey | 398 |
Glossary | 412 |
Time line poo1200 | 420 |
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Abbey abbot Ælfric Æthelred Æthelstan Alfred Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon England archaeological Archbishop areas bishop boroughs burial Bury St Edmunds Cambridge canons Canterbury castles cathedral centres Chapter Christian Chronicle Church clergy Cnut communities court cults Danelaw Danes death Domesday Book Early Medieval ecclesiastical Edward the Confessor eleventh century elite Empress Matilda estates ethnic evidence example Henry historians History Jews King king’s land landscape Lapidge late Anglo-Saxon later Latin liturgy lives London lords lordship manors manuscript markets marriage medieval England Middle Ages minster monasteries monastic monks ninth Norman Conquest Normandy Old English Orderic Vitalis Oxford pastoral peasants period population priest records reign religious rites royal saints Saxon Scandinavian secular settlement shire social society sources Stephen suggests surviving tenth century texts textual thegn Thomas Becket tion towns trade trans twelfth century urban vernacular villages vols Wessex William of Malmesbury Winchester women Wulfstan