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2 giorni fa · The Anglo-Saxons left England a land of villages, but the continuity of village development is uncertain. In the 7th–8th centuries, in what is called the “Middle Saxon shuffle,” many early villages were abandoned, and others, from which later medieval villages descended, were founded.
2 giorni fa · Contains detailed topographical accounts of places, parishes and counties in England. Originally published in four volumes, here given together. Topographical Dictionaries .
3 giorni fa · FYFIELD. Fyfield is about 2 miles north of Chipping Ongar, (fn. 1) and has an area of 2,450 acres. (fn. 2) Its name is derived from the 5-hide unit of assessment used by the AngloSaxons. (fn. 3) In several respects it is one of the most interesting parishes in the hundred. There is an unusual number of moated sites and pre-18th-century houses.
3 giorni fa · When Erik was killed in 954, Northumbria became a permanent part of the kingdom of England. By becoming rulers of all England, the West Saxon kings had to administer regions with variant customs, governed under West Saxon, Mercian, or Danish law.
1 giorno fa · Historically, England was a very homogeneous country and developed coherent traditions, but, especially as the British Empire expanded and the country absorbed peoples from throughout the globe, English culture has been accented with diverse contributions from Afro-Caribbeans, Asians, Muslims, and other immigrant groups.
3 giorni fa · The contributors, based mainly in England and France, reflect on a century’s worth of Anglo-French historical research. Framed between two treaties (Troyes and the Spanish Partition Treaties), the underlying hypothesis is that, despite bouts of conflict, England and France enjoyed significant periods of peace and cooperation which ...
3 giorni fa · By the time of Bede, more than a century after Gildas, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms which had now converted Christianity, had come to dominate most of what is now modern England.
