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AngloSaxon Somerset,Used
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The county of Somerset cannot lay claim to have been an AngloSaxon kingdom like Kent or Sussex, but nevertheless it has a history as a distinct region which can be traced to the seventh century and there are hints of an earlier entity in the postRoman period. Although the detail of this society is difficult to recover, there is no doubt that it was successful in maintaining its independence for over two centuries before it was overrun by the AngloSaxons from the east. On the edge of the highland zone, with its diverse topography, newly conquered Somerset provided the early AngloSaxon kings and aristocracy with a rich prize, which they were quick to exploit.This book traces the way in which the king and his warrior followers shaped the countryside to meet the particular needs of a society which was still in the process of formation when it created Somerset. The westward expansion of the AngloSaxons of Hampshire and Wiltshire was a step in the formation of Wessex, both as a kingdom and as a selfconscious society. The landscape still bears witness to the changes that took place in a highly ordered and stratified polity over the course of the eighth and ninth centuries.The book also examines the response to the challenge presented by the attacks of the Vikings and traces the impact of the new technologies introduced into agriculture which underpinned a profound change in the structure of society at all levels and provided the economic impetus for a growth in population and the final shaping of the landscape we see today. Although profoundly rural and agricultural even Somerset felt the impact of trade with the outside world, though a connection with distant parts of the Mediterranean did not last long. Instead the shire came to feel the influence of Gaul and Ireland through its ecclesiastical links and also through the Vikings, who had a commercial side to their contacts with western Britain.The influence of the Church on this society was profound, successfully replacing the gods of the RomanoBritish world with the faith which now dominated the Eastern Empire and the barbarian successor states of the western Empire. Evidence of Christianity in postRoman Somerset is strong. The enthusiastic acceptance of Christianity by the AngloSaxons was closely bound up with the emergence of their petty kingdoms and the ideological support offered by the Church underpinned much of the new structures of their society. In return the Church prospered as a major economic and cultural force in the landscape. Somerset provides good evidence of longterm monastic survival from the late postRoman world through to the great rebirth of the tenth century. It is at some of its church sites that we should look for the continuity between the postRoman and the AngloSaxon worlds.Table of Contents1. PostImperial Politics: defence and offence2. Settlements and Soldiers3. Settlements and Estates4. Eorl and Ceorl, Theow and Freo5. Ancient Agriculture6. Tenth Century Agriculture7. Early Trade8. Trade and Town9. Old Religion10. The Church Reformed11. Conclusions
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