Formation of the English Kingdom in the Tenth Century
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780198717911
Subjects: Great britain, history, anglo-saxon period, 449-1066
Description: This study is devoted to the question of how the English kingdom was formed, arguing that the eleventh-century English kingdom was defined, not by any earlier vision of English unity, but by a series of administrative reforms that appear to have been implemented in the mid- to late-tenth century.