Anglo Saxon England Podcast
1) 3.4 Cerdic the Founder of England by Paul Harper
Alfred the Great believed that the House of Wessex stretched back to the earliest days of Anglo Saxon England, to the early 6th century, and that the founder was a warrior - Cerdic. But Alfred was a m...Show More
2) 3.3 Seasons
How people in Anglo Saxon England viewed the seasons that meant so much to their health, happiness and survival. From the iron-bound Winter, to the freedom and bounty of summer Hosted on Acast. See ac...Show More
3) 3.2 The Fens - Home to Monsters and Hermits
Marie Hilder talks about the 'English Holy Land' during the time of the Anglo Saxons - the landscape, monasteries and hermits -and the tale of Hereward the Wake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...Show More
4) 3.1 The Sutton Hoo King
In May 1939, in the shadow of impeding war, Edith Pretty comissioned local archaeologist basil Brown to investigate the largest of a series of mounds on her land - at Sutton Hoo. What they found has b...Show More
5) 2.9 Norman Transformation?
1066 and the Norman conquest undoubtedly came with dramatic change in personel and architecture. But did it extend much below the elites, did it change the depths and fundamentals of English society -...Show More
6) 2.8 A New Landscape
From 9th century, the increasing intensfication of agriculture and population growth led to a transformation of agriculture and settlement in the 'champion' lands of lowland England changes which stil...Show More
7) 2.7 Rise of the Thegns
The Danish wars from the 9th century had a enormous impact on the Anglo Saxon state. The national struggle to repel and survive meant the creation of a centralised bureaucratic state - to raise geld, ...Show More
8) 2.6 Life in Warland
Warland was held by all free Anglo Saxon families, and so called because the resources of the land were to be used for the waru, defence of the land. That might mean military defence - but it was a mu...Show More
9) 2.5 Life on the Inland
As 7th century turns into 8th, society becomes a little more hierarchical; tribute centres like Rendlesham begin to disappear for more permanent royal sites. But more significant for the life of many ...Show More
10) 2.4 Extensive Lordship and the Scir
The 7th and 8th centuries saw the gradual development of territorial grouping, with tribal and political identities, focussed on the lord or king. Despite more well defined hierarchies, lordship remai...Show More