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A valuable translation of and commentary on essential records and narrative material preserved in primary sources is provided in Dorothy Whitelock (ed.), English Historical Documents, c. 500–1042, 2nd ed. (1979), the first volume of a new edition of the noted multivolume series of sources. Modern general histories include Frank Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd ed. (1971, reprinted 1989); Peter Hunter Blair, An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd ed. (2003); D.J.V. Fisher, The Anglo-Saxon Age, c. 400–1042 (1973); Dorothy Whitelock, The Beginning of English Society, 2nd ed. (1954, reprinted 1982); and R.I. Page, Life in Anglo-Saxon England (1970). Special topics are covered in J.N.L. Myres, The English Settlements (1986); Martyn J. Whittock, The Origins of England, 410–600 (1986); J.M. Wallace-Hadrill, Early Germanic Kinship in England and on the Continent (1971, reprinted 1980); William A. Chaney, The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England: The Transition from Paganism to Christianity (1970); Henry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd ed. (1991); John Godfrey, The Church in Anglo-Saxon England (1962); Frank Barlow, The English Church, 1000–1066: A History of the Later Anglo-Saxon Church, 2nd ed. (1979); H.R. Loyn, The Governance of Anglo-Saxon England, 500–1087 (1984), and The Vikings in Britain (1977); Frank Barlow, Edward the Confessor (1970, reprinted 1984); James Tait, The Medieval English Borough: Studies on Its Origins and Constitutional History (1936, reprinted 1968); Charles S. Orwin and Christabel S. Orwin, The Open Fields, 3rd ed. (1967); Christine Fell, Cecily Clark, and Elizabeth Williams, Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066 (1984); and James Campbell, Essays in Anglo-Saxon History (1986).

England from 1066 to 1485