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Northumbria
Mercia
Wessex
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730-825 Mercia dominant state in England
793 Vikings sack Lindisfarne
825-30 Egbert of Wessex (r. 802-39) defeatsMercians (825), conquers Mercia (829),defeats Welsh (830)
víking830s Vikings attack England víkingr
850s Vikings start settling in England
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851 Vikings sack London
860s and 870s Vikings receiving tributes fromEnglish kingdoms
876 Vikings settle in Northumbria
877 Vikings take eastern Mercia
878 Vikings invade Wessex Danelaw
Alfred the Great of Wessex (r. 871-99)
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878 Alfred defeats Vikings at Edington
885 Alfred and Vikings make peace
Alfred: Lands south of Thames,(W. Mercia), Christianisationof Danes
Danes: E. Anglia, E. Mercia,Lincolnshire and Yorkshire
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Alfred’s Reconstruction of England
System of burhs PeterboroughEdinburgh
Re-organising army
Establishing navy
892-96 Wessex repels Viking attacks
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Edward the Elder(r. 899-924)
Aethelstan(r. 924-39)
shires
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Government of Anglo-Saxon State
King: Theoretically electedHolds lands all over EnglandRight to military supportReceives judicial finesRepresented by shire-reeves/sheriffsAppoints bishops and abbots
Witangemot: Assembly of important men
Chancery office: Issuing royal letters
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Local courts:
Meet regularly at county courts
Each headed by ealdorman, sheriff, bishop
Using customs, rites of compurgation andordeal
Monetary penalties, mostly…
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Social Classes in Anglo-Saxon England
Warrior nobility incl. ealdormen
Ceorls - free peasants (by 9th c. more semi-freepeasants and slaves)
Churches as landowners, also expecting titheand (on royal lands) Peter’s Pence/church-scot
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Alfred’s Intellectual Reforms
Encouraging reading, writing, translation
Four books “most necessary for all men toknow:”
Gregory I, Pastoral CareBoethius, Consolation of PhilosophyPsalms 1-50Bede, Ecclesiastical History
Law Code