Some BAckground

    The "Germans"
  • Tacitus, P. Cornelius [c. 98 A.D.]. Germania. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1921. [Do not be confused by the fact that this edition happens to contain two other works by Tacitus, Dialogus and Agricola.]
  • ____________. Germania. Ed. with introduction, translation and notes. J.G.C. Anderson. London: Bristol Classical P, 1997.
  • Musset, Lucien. The Germanic Invasions: the Making of Europe, A.D. 400-600. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1975.
    The Anglo-Saxons
  • Stenton, F.M. Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.
  • Campbell, James, Eric John and Patrick Wormald. The Anglo-Saxons. Oxford: Phaidon, 1982.
  • Blair, P.H. An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1977.
  • Loyn, H.R. Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest. London: Longman, 1962. (A volume in the series "Social and Economic History of England.")
  • Mayr-Harting, Henry. The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England. 3rd ed. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 1991.
  • Whitelock, D. The Beginnings of English Society. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1952.
  • Page, R.I. Life in Anglo-Saxon England. London: , 1960.
  • Leyser, Henrietta. Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in Englang 450 - 1500. New York: St. Martin's, 1995.
  • Damico, Helen and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen. New Readings on Women in Old English Literature. Bloomington: Indinan UP, 1990.
  • Fell, Christine E. Women in Anglo-Saxon England. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.
    Geography, Maps
  • Mackay, Angus and David Ditchburn. Atlas of Medieval Europe. London: Routledge, 1997.
  • Hooper, Nicholas and Matthew Bennett. Cambridge Illustrated Atlas: Warfare, The Middle Ages, 768-1487. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.
  • Hill, David. An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England. Toronto: U or Toronto P, 1981.
  • Darby, H.C., ed. A New Historical Geography of England before 1600. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1976.
  • There are useful maps in Blair, Campbell, Hill and Stenton, including the large endpaper in the latter. Big, detailed maps are published by the Ordnance Survey, Southhampton, England:
    • Roman Britain. 3rd ed. 1956.
    • Britain in the Dark Ages (410-871). 2nd ed. 1966.
    • Britain before the Norman Conquest (871-1066). 1973.
    • Physical Map of Great Britain. 1957.

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