The English Settlements

Here, Myres looks anew at the dark centuries of English history between the collapse of Roman rule in the early fifth century and the emergence of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the seventh — the subject of the now-classic Roman Britain and the English Settlements by Collingwood and Myres — and reconsiders the period in light of abundant recent research in the field. New linguistic findings have led to a significant shift in emphasis, which is now reflected in this last volume of the Oxford History of England. The author illuminates some of the little-understood factors that link Roman Britain with Anglo-Saxon England, and suggests certain political and social continuities that help to clarify this complex and traumatic historical era.

• Author
• John Linton Myres

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 288

• Series
• Oxford History of England

• Publisher
• Oxford University Press, USA

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780198217190

• Genres
• history

• Release date
• 1986