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Anglo-Saxon Period (5th century – 1066)

Anglo-Saxon Period (5th century – 1066). Martina Šprincová. The V enerable Bede. an English monk who lived three hundred years later well known as an author and scholar „ The Ecclesiastical History of the English People “. The Anglo-Saxon invasion.

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Anglo-Saxon Period (5th century – 1066)

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  1. Anglo-Saxon Period(5th century – 1066) Martina Šprincová

  2. The Venerable Bede • an English monk who lived three hundred years later • well known as an author and scholar • „The Ecclesiastical History of the English People“

  3. The Anglo-Saxon invasion • the Germanic tribes began to settle after AD 43

  4. The Anglo-Saxons established a number of kingdoms • Essex • Sussex • Middesex • East Anglia • Northubria • Mercia • Wessex

  5. Offa, king of Mercia (AD 757 – 796) • Offa was the most powerful king of his time • he built a huge dyke, the lenght of the Welsch border • Offa reformed the silvercoinage in England and produced the first English silver pennies

  6. Government and society The King´s Council, called „the Witan“ • right to choose kings • agree the use of the king´s laws New administrative areas - Shire or Counties • a shire reeve, the king´s local administrator • shortened to “sheriff”

  7. Agriculture and Villages Anglo-Saxon pattern: • 1st field for planting spring crops • 2nd for autumn crops • 3rd was left to rest for a year Villages and placenames • - ing means family so Hastingsis place of Hasta • ham means farm, ton means settlement Birmingham, Nottingham, Southampton • frequent place-name Kingston

  8. Religion • at first a form of Germanic paganism Saint Augustine of Canterbury • the first archbishop of Canterbury (601) The Celtic X Roman Church • the king of Northumbria decide to support the Roman Church at the Synod (meeting) of Whitby (663)

  9. Education • Monasteries and minsters: • learning and education • reading and writing • land had to be registered

  10. Alfted the Great • ruled Wessex from 871 - 899 • started the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle • Alfred held out against the Vikings • built walled settlements called ´burhs´, now spelt ´borough´ • winning against the Vikings gave him the epithet 'the Great´

  11. The Viking´s invasion • The Viking- the ship-borned explorers, traders, and warriors who came from Norway and Denmark

  12. The Saxon kingEthelred: a tax called ´Danish money´ (begining of a regular tax system) Cnutbacame king of England in 1016 and after his father death king of Denmark Anglo-Scandinavian empire Edward ´the Confessor´ pattern of thevillage - manor house and a church spent almost all of his life in Normandy built Westminster Abbey at London lived until 1066 and was the last Anglo-Saxon king

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