01-16-2007, 03:49 PM
Quote:Or were the Saxons under one ruler? (not my area at all but humour me)
Best read: Bassett, Steve (1989a): In search of the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, in: Bassett, Steve et al (1989): The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, (Leicester University Press), pp. 3-27. Very good study!
It is argued there that the future English kingdoms coalesce out of a myriad of very small groups. This is of course totally opposite to what we are told by the historians of those later kingdoms, who suggest (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) that most dynasties were a direct continuation of the invasion groups.
Robert Vermaat
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)