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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 The Viking Age; 2 Viking raids; 3 Viking colonisation; 4 The growth of towns; 5 The built environment; 6 Feeding the people; 7 Craft and industry; 8 Trade and exchange; 9 Churches and monasteries; 10 Death and burial; 11 Monuments in stone; Further reading.;From shortly before AD 800 until the Norman conquest, England was subject to raids from seafaring peoples from Scandinavia - the Vikings. They were not only raiders but also traders and settlers. During this period the English state was unified under a single ruler for the first time and Anglo-Saxon society underwent great changes. Results from major excavations in both the countryside and in towns, such as London, Lincoln and York, mean that it is now possible to reassess the Viking contribution to the history of Late Anglo-Saxon England and to examine the creation of a new mixed Anglo-S.
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