This is still the only place where one can find the whole range of current scholarly debates grouped into one volume. Whether one wishes to use it as introductory reading or as an up-to-date bibliographical resource, anyone taking the study of the Anglo-Saxon period seriously ought to place a copy on their shelf.
Helena Hamerow is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
David Hinton is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Southampton.
Sally Crawford is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.