<p><b>Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize<br>A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveries</b><br><br>This beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world''s leading experts on this transformative era in England''s early history, explains the origins of towns, manor houses, and castles in a completely new way, and sheds new light on the important functions of buildings and settlements in shaping people''s lives during the age of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred.<br><br><i>Building Anglo-Saxon England </i>demonstrates how hundreds of recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time how regionally diverse the built environment of the Anglo-Saxons truly was. Blair identifies a zone of eastern England with access to the North Sea whose economy, prosperity, and timber buildings
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<p>Exam Board: Pearson Edexcel<br>Level: GCSE<br>Subject: History<br>First teaching: September 2016<br>First exams: Summer 2018<br><br><b>Endorsed for Edexcel</b><br><b><br>Target...
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The Anglo-Saxon period has often been dismissed as ''lost centuries'' or the Dark Ages, but archaeological evidence and later written sources reveal a complex and sophisticated culture that was beginning to move towards urbanisation,...
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Two particular perspectives inform this wide-ranging and richly illustrated survey of the art produced in England, or by English artists, between c. 600 and c.1100, in a variety of media, manuscripts, stone and wooden sculpture, ivory carving, textiles,...
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