Description
"Ryan Lavelle takes readers on a journey around the borders and edges of the early medieval English kingdom. Lavelle explores how land was divided and the ways in which boundaries were perceived. He argues that there was no one unified 'England' until after the Norman Conquest-and in fact the lands were divided many times between the death of Æthelstan and the invasion of William the Conqueror. This is a fascinating account that reshapes our thinking about the origins of the 'lands of the English'"--
