ISBN10: 0719036755, ISBN13: 9780719036750, [publisher: Manchester Univ Pr] Softcover Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Small amount of dust marking. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> This is a history, and as such suffers from all the faults of sub- jectivity which mark it out as the view of one person. It covers a period in the early history of Somerset when documentary material is non-existent or at best very sparse and so it relies on archaeological sources and studies such as place-names, as well as upon charters and documentary sources such as the Anglo- Saxon Chronicle and the Domesday Book. Much of this book is, therefore, speculative. Nevertheless it seems a worthwhile exercise to try to outline a possible history for the county up to about 1150. I have stopped at that point because I believe that 'Somerset', essentially as we see it today, once we take away the modern trappings of technical change, had been formed by that date. The historic county was in existence. Its local com- munities had taken on the shape thay have today. (LL)
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