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The Anglo-Saxons 400-800 P Kenney

This Study Guide is designed to help the learner understand and explore the history of the early Anglo-Saxons in Britain, approximately covering the period from the end of Roman Britain in the early 5th century to the first Viking attacks on the island of Britain at the end of the 8th century. This Study Guide is intended to support learners who undertake an A level or AS level qualification in History. This Study Guide will also help to lay a sound foundation for those who go on to study history at a higher (degree) level, as well as appeal to those who are interested in learning more about the Anglo-Saxon period of British history. This Study Guide focuses on the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain and the impact this had on politics, religion, the economy, society and culture. This Study Guide will help you to understand the development of kingship and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in Britain including the reasons for early expansion of kingdoms by c.600 and the reasons for the rapid rise and fall of Anglo-Saxon kings in the seventh century. The role of Religion and the Christian Church in Britain is prominent in the literary sources of the period so this Study Guide will help you to explore Religious belief before the arrival of Saint Augustine in 597, the process of Christianisation and the role and impact of the Roman and Celtic Church. The Study Guide will also help you to understand the economic and social life in Britain under the Anglo-Saxons including social structure, lordship, families and kinship; law and law-making as well as cultural change in Britain including literature and religious artefacts.