Professor Sawyer offers some new interpretations of the development of Scandinavian society and the history of the Christian conversion.

This revised edition of the text provides both the student and the specialist with an informative account of post-Roman English society. After a general survey of the main developments from the 4th-century to the 11th, the book offers analysis of: social organization; the changing character of kingship, of royal government and the influence of the church; the history of settlement; the making of the landscape; the growth of towns and trade; and the consequences of the Norman Conquest. The author also considers the various influences; British, Frankish, Viking, and Christian, that helped shape...