From the Vikings to the Normans

Wendy Davies is Pro-Provost, European Affairs, and Professor of History at University College London. She has written on early Welsh, Breton, Irish, English and European history and archaeology. She is currently directing, with James Graham-Campbell, the Celtic Inscribed Stones Project (CISP), an interdisciplinary project to establish a database of all known early medieval Celtic inscribed stones. Professor Davies has recently begun to work on rural communities in northern Spain in the tenth century: she is currently writing on sale, price and valuation in Galicia and Castile-León and is developing a new field project with colleagues in the Medieval Department of the Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid.

This is an admirable collection of papers raising important themes and offering a number of challenges to accepted orthodoxies about the nature and development of the separate areas of early medieval Britain.

• List of Illustrations ; List of Maps ; List of Contributors ; Introduction ; 1. Monarchy, Hegemony and Anarchy ; 2. Vikings ; 3. Exchange, Trade and Urbanization ; 4. Lords and Labour ; 5. The Christianization of Society ; 6. Writing ; 7. Britain, Ireland and the World to the South ; Conclusion ; Further Reading ; Chronology ; Glossary ; Genealogy ; Maps ; Index