The Danes in England.1

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HistoryVolume 5, Issue 19 p. 173-177 The Danes in England.1 F. M. Stenton., F. M. Stenton.Search for more papers by this author F. M. Stenton., F. M. Stenton.Search for more papers by this author First published: October 1920 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.1920.tb01326.xCitations: 1 1 The essential authority for the early society of the Danelaw is the Domesday Survey. The portions relating to East Anglia, and to the counties of Leicester, Rutland, Nottingham, Derby, and York, are published in translation, with introductions, in the Victoria History of the Counties of England. Vinogradoff, Growth of the Manor and English Society in the Eleventh Century, should be consulted for a view of the relation of the Danelaw to general English conditions. In 1912 Mr. W. H. Stevenson published certain pre-Conquest Yorkshire surveys which give the earliest detailed information about the great estates characteristic of the Danelaw (Eng. Hist. Rev. xxvii. 1–25). In Types of Manorial Structure in the Northern Danelaw (Oxford Studies in Social and Economic History) I have attempted to trace the connexion between the Domesday Survey of this region and the few Saxon land books which relate to it. Most of the highly important evidence which twelfth century charters supply about social conditions is still imprinted. Farrer, Early Yorkshire Charters, is publishing nearly all the known twelfth century texts which relate to this great county. In Danelaw Charters (British Academy, Records of Social and Economic History), I have printed, with an introduction, a collection of original twelfth century charters relating to the region between the Yorkshire border and the Welland. Very little East Anglian material referring to this period is at present accessible in print. There is no adequate account of English History before the Conquest, but good narratives of important episodes are given in Alfred the Truth Teller by Miss B. M. Lees and Canute the Great by Professor Larson (Putnam: Heroes of the Nations Series). Three communications by Mr. M. L. R. Beaven to the English Historical Review in 1917 and 1918 are of great value for the chronology of the period 866–946. Professor Mawer in The Vikings (Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature) has given an excellent brief survey of the general activities of the Danes in Europe. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume5, Issue19October 1920Pages 173-177 RelatedInformation