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FEW periods of our history seem drearier and more unprofitable to one who follows the mere course of political events than the two hundred years which close with the submission of the English states to Ecgberht. The petty and ineffectual strife of the Three Kingdoms, Northumbria, Mercia, and Wessex, presents few features of human interest, while we are without the means of explaining the sudden revolutions which raise and depress their power, or their final subsidence into isolation and inaction. It is only when we view it from within that we see the importance of the time. It was, in fact, an age of revolution – an age in which mighty changes were passing over every phase of the life of Englishmen; an age in which heathendom was passing into Christianity, the tribal king into the national ruler, the ætheling into the thegn; an age in which Eng lish society saw the beginnings of the change which transformed the noble into a lord, and the free ceorl into a dependent or a serf; an age in which new moral conceptions told on the fabric of our early jurisprudence, and in which custom began to harden into written law. Without, the new England again became a member of the European commonwealth; while within, the very springs of national life were touched by the mingling of new blood with the blood of the nation itself...

The Conquest of England [Didactic Press Paperbacks] John Green 9781546449881 Books

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Product details Paperback 406 pages Publisher CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 2, 2017) Language English ISBN-10 1546449884

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The Conquest of England [Didactic Press Paperbacks] John Green 9781546449881 Books Reviews

Fascinating read. Thoroughly researched and vividly portrayed
Very comprehensive lecture approach to the Norman invasion and cultural integration of Anglo-Saxon England. Detailed and well referenced for the student of history.
Excellant book for historians