The Anglo-Saxon period has often been dismissed as 'lost centuries' or the Dark Ages, but archaeological evidence and later written sources reveal a complex and sophisticated culture that was beginning to move towards urbanisation, establishing market-places to facilitate the trade of local and exotic goods, and developing an organised educational system. In Early Anglo Saxon Britain, Sally Crawford paints a vivid portrait of daily life in the period that saw the Anglo-Saxon invasion and the end of Roman Britain: from the status and demands of occupations to the structures of families, and from the intricacies of feasting to the period's elaborate and creative entertainments.

Author Biography

Dr Sally Crawford is an established scholar in the field of medieval studies. She is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Birmingham and is currently working on the archives of Paul Jacobsthal at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University. She is the co-editor for The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (Oxford University Press), co-editor for Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, and has written a number of books on the period.