Later Anglo-Saxon England

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• show awareness of the principal artefacts, sites and other types of evidence relating to the period
• demonstrate critical understanding of a complex period
• discuss the implications of the information and insights that you have gained.
• appreciate interrelationships of written and physical evidence

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• complete structured writing of assignments of different lengths
• manage your time effectively
• write critically and coherently within a time constraint.
• evaluate published arguments relevant to a specific question
• communicate through oral and written modes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• analyse diverse types of data
• evaluate the particular uses and problems of different sorts of evidence
• debate key issues relating to the period of study.

Subjects to be considered may include (this is an indicative list only and may vary from year to year):

• the nature of the sources
• burhs and the Burghal Hidage
• coins and mints
• Scandinavian influences
• reform of the Church
• Domesday Book
• rural and urban developments
• economic aspects such as trade and crafts
• castles, residences, houses
• social stratification and lordship.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Lectures
• Classes/Seminars

Learning activities include

• Lectures
• Classes/Seminars
• Independent study

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Hill, D (1981). An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford: Blackwell.

Keynes, S., and Lapidge, M (1983). Alfred the Great. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books.

Hamerow, H. et al (2011). The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Crawford, S (2009). Daily Life in Anglo-Saxon England. Oxford/Westport CT: Greenwood World Publishing.

Fleming, R (2010). Britain after Rome. London: Penguin Books.

Reynolds, A (1999). Later Anglo-Saxon England. Stroud: Tempus.

Richards, J (1991). Viking Age England. London: Batsford.

Higham, N., and Ryan, M. J. (2013). The Anglo-Saxon World. London/New Haven: Yale University Press.

Webster, L (2012). Anglo-Saxon Art. London: British Museum Press.

Lavelle, R (2010). Alfred’s Wars. Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.

Hooke, D (1998). The Landscape of Anglo-Saxon England. London: Leicester University Press.

Hinton, D.A (2005). Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pins: Possessions and People in Medieval Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External