Anglo Saxon Historiography
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- Historiography
- Stenton
- Archaeology shows the permanent English settlements were found in Britain - if not before the last quarter 5th century
- kings with an overlord of another king have to ask him to confirm their grants of land to confirm his supremacy
- no Genuine charter of wulfhere whos elevation to king ship ended the overlordship of mercian kings
- Edwin, Oswald and Oswiu Of Northumberland foreshadowed a kingdom of all england
- Much fighting in the 7t century
- Suggestion that all the words and titles in charters were just rhetorical embellishment
- May not be accurate as only a record
- Unity of England created before the end of 8th century
- View that Bretwalda shows significant unification
- book published in 1972
- Viking invasion a bighistorial change
- views change from the top down
- views historical change as inveitable
- campbell sees it as less inevitable
- Campbell
- Charters are the most crucial evidence for the effect of Christianity on anglo saxon society
- The age of bede was decisive in the formation of the landed wealthy of the medieval English church 7th/8th century
- Aethelbalds power represents a return to the clearer political pattern of the 7th century
- By the mid 11th century engand a nation state
- Sarah Foot agrees with the nation but not the state
- letter between roman Britons and empire regarded as being to the romans asking for help from anglo Saxons due to raging and pillaging
- Places more emphasis on the settlement on the Vikings
- Stenton looks more at the destruction of churches
- Goffart
- Dumville
- Makes a few assumptions about the 5th century
- Redgate
- Alfred and WUlfstan regarded VIking attacks as punishment from god
- Christianty and the church important for creating uniformity
- InEdgars reign kingship was given a Christ like element
- By the mid 11th century England was a nation state
- Most people travelled by water
- religion had a central importance
- The economy was developed economically anfd varied by 800
- York an ecclesiastical centre not a royal town
- Cubitt
- traditional view that pre conquest was golden age for women
- Consted by Pauline stafford
- Stafford and yorke argue that the reform movement diminished the importance of women in religious life
- yorke argues that female monasteries were used as retirement homes for royal women
- NUns were second class citizens
- women may not have understood latin which put them at the same level as clergy but not monks
- traditional view that pre conquest was golden age for women
- Pelteret
- Wormald
- NO more than a dozen English monasteries in the 7th century
- 690 no more than 13 or 14 bishoprics
- most monasteries only a monastery in name
- Stenton
- Historians agree that in the 5th century there was a lack of evidence - Stenton and Campbell
- Many Scholard claim the anglo saxon chronicle is unreliable for the 5th century
- Writing from before 1939 does not consider Sutton hoo
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