ANGLO-SAXON LINCOLNSHIRE (HISTORY OF LINCOLNSHIRE III)
Written by Peter Sawyer
Published by History Of Lincolnshire Committee
in 1998
ISBN: 0902668021
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- EAST MIDLANDS
- LINCOLNSHIRE
- ANGLO-SAXON
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
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Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Note on Terminology, references, and names
- CHAPTER I The Evidence
- Archaeological evidence
- Coins and names
- CHAPTER II The Shires and Resources
- Fens and Marshes
- Communications
- Resources
- Population and Settlements
- Lordships
- CHAPTER III Britons and Anglo-Saxons
- The end of Roman Rule
- The Anglo-Saxon invasions
- The Tribal Hidage
- CHAPTER IV The Seventh Century
- The Struggle for overlord
- Conversion and early church organisation
- Monastries
- Saints
- CHAPTER V The Mercian Empire
- Bishops and religious communities
- Mercian government
- CHAPTER VI The First Danish Conquest
- Viking raids, conquests, and settlements
- Lincolnshire under Scandinavian control
- Names and their significance
- CHAPTER VII From Edward the Elder to Edward and Confessor
- The West Saxon conquest of the Danelaw
- Lincolnshire under English rule
- The Danes return
- The creation of the shire
- Ridings, hundreds, and carucates
- Earls and sheriffs
- CHAPTER VIII The Church in the tenth and eleventh centuries
- Ancient shrines and monastic revival: Crowland
- Bishops and their changing dioceses
- Minsters and parishes
- Churches
- CHAPTER IX Markets, towns and the economy of the region
- Fairs and markets
- The effects of the Danish conquestl the revival of Lincoln
- Exports
- The control of trade
- Lincoln
- Samford and Torksey
- CHAPTER X The Norman Conquest
- Rebellions and confiscations
- Old lordships, new lords
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index