Invasion, settlement or political conquest: changing representations of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain.

Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

Abstract

The nature of the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain c 450-600, and the survival of the incumbent Romano-British population, has long been an emotive topic. Traditional views represented the coming of the Anglo-Saxons as an invasion of entire tribes with large and aggressive warbands, and used vivid imagery of the Anglo-Saxons 'storming the earthwork camps ... slaughtering and driving away the Romanised Britons', and of the Romano-Britons being 'as nearly extirpated as a nation can be'. (1) The last 50 years, however, have seen a growing trend towards ...

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