The Wealth of Anglo-Saxon England

ISBN-13: 9780199253937 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 168 str.

Peter Sawyer

Opis

This volume provides an account of the ways wealth was accumulated and the forms it took in Anglo-Saxon England. Emphasis is placed on recent developments in the study of Anglo-Saxon coins, the Domesday Book, and some of their surprising results.

Recenzje

It is testimony to the strength of Sawyer's original ideas that so much has not only survived decades of research, including his own extensive contributions, but has been corroborated by it.

O autorze

Peter Sawyer has taught at the universities of Edinburgh, Birmingham, Leeds, Gothenburg, Minnesota, and California-Berkeley. He was Professor of Medieval History at Leeds University from1970 till 1982, and took early retirement to live in Sweden and devote more time to early Scandinavian history. He was awarded an Honorary DPhil. from the University of Copenhagen in 2005.