Emergence of the English

ISBN-10
164189914X
ISBN-13
9781641899147
Category
Anglo-Saxons
Language
English
Published
2020
Author
Susan Oosthuizen

Description

This book takes a critical approach to the dominant explanation for the transformation from post-Roman to 'Anglo-Saxon' society in Britain from the fifth to the eighth century: that change resulted from north-west European immigration into Britain. After testing this paradigm, the author explores the increasing amount of evidence for the gradual evolution of late Roman into early medieval England, and suggests some new directions for research that may lead to the development of more holistic explanatory models.

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