Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Sub-Roman Britain: The First Phase of Saxon Occupation; 2: The Second Phase: The Character of Conquest; 3: The Conversion of the Angles and Saxons; 4: The Consolidation of the Church; 5: The Early Kingdoms; 6: The Kingdom of Northumbria; 7: Southern England in the Eighth Century: The Mercian Supremacy; 8: England and Europe; 9: Political and Ecclesiastical Developments in Southern England; 10: King Alfred ‘The Great'; 11: The Making of England; 12: The Apogee of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom; 13: The Nadir of Anglo-Saxon Kingship; 14: The Anglo-Scandinavian Kingdom; Epilogue

About the Author

D. J. V. Fisher

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'Mr Fisher says what he thinks, and his views are always worth considering. The Anglo-Saxon Age is probably the best book of its kind at present available'. History