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Border Land: Frontiers of Early England

By (author) Ryan Lavelle

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An innovative and thought-provoking exploration of the edges of England from their earliest days to the Norman Conquest The earliest written record of a political boundary in England dates from around 880, when King Alfred and Danish warlord Guthrum formalised a legal treaty to divide lands between them. How did Alfred and his descendants think about the borders of â€œEnglishâ€ territory? And what can these markers tell us about the English kingdom itself? Ryan Lavelle takes readers on a journey around the borders and edges of early medieval England. From an oak tree used as a marker by St Augustine, through Alfredâ€™s famous treaty, to 1066 and beyond, Lavelle explores how land was divided and the ways in which boundaries were perceived. He argues that there was no one unified â€œEnglandâ€ until after the Norman Conquestâ€”and in fact the lands were divided several times between the death of Ã†thelstan and the invasion of William the Conqueror. This is a fascinating account that reshapes our thinking about the origins of the â€œlands of the English.â€

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