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Over the past fifty years Ann Williams has remodeled our knowing of Anglo-Saxon and Norman society in her reports of personalities and elites. during this assortment, major students within the box revisit subject matters which were relevant to her paintings, and open up new insights into the workings of the multi-cultural groups of the world of britain within the early center a long time. There are distinctive discussions of neighborhood and neighborhood elites and the interaction among them that formed the special associations of neighborhood govt within the pre-Conquest interval; radical new readings of key occasions resembling the main issue of 1051 and a reassessment of the Bayeux Tapestry because the beginnings of the Historia Anglorum; stories of the impression of the Norman Conquest and the survival of the English; and explorations of the social, political, and administrative cultures in post-Conquest England and Normandy. the person essays are united total via the articulation of the neighborhood, neighborhood, and nationwide identities that that formed the societies of the interval.

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D. Scragg, Oxford 1991, 238–49 (for men with Scandinavian names fighting with Ealdorman Bryhtnoth at Maldon); L. Abrams, ‘Scandinavian PlaceNames and Settlement History: Flegg, Norfolk and East Anglia in the Viking Age’ in Viking and Norse in the North Atlantic, ed. A. Mortensen and S. Arge, Tórshaven 2005, 307–22. 6 See, for example, F. M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd edn, Oxford 1971, 414; G. FellowsJensen, ‘The Vikings in England: a Review’, ASE 4, 1975, 181–206; Williams, ‘Cockles’, 1–22.

Keats-Rohan, Continental Origins of English Landholders 1066–1166, CDROM, COEL Enterprises Ltd, 1995, person no. 541. 53 The wrath of St Edmund could be a potent force in Suffolk tenurial politics. Both Ulf and Swart Hoga held land in Blything Hundred and when the extent of Manni’s Suffolk holdings is detailed (Table 1), the reason for this landholding pattern becomes clear. Although he held on both sides of the county, it is clear that the Bramfield complex was the centre of his estate – so it is no surprise to find his adult son(s) holding nearby.

It presumably reflects the influence of the Bury scribe using the patronymic form to make the relationship between Manni and Ulf clear. Ulf was probably protesting at what he saw as the granting away of part of his inheritance. 44,2. 67,19;24;28;32, holding in Fordley (Blything Hundred), Strickland, (Blything), Raydon (Samford), Bredfield and Loudham (Wilford), and Campsey Ash and Dallinghoo (Loes). A Suertinc also held a house and 10 acres in Colchester, Essex (LDB, 105v: DB Essex, B3a). For more holdings of Swarting, see below.

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