3 Forgetting the Britons in Victorian Anglo-Saxon Archaeology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Tables viii
5. Contributors ix
6. Acknowledgements xi
7. Abbreviations xii
8. 1 Britons in Anglo-Saxon England: An Introduction 1
9. Part I: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives
10. 2 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes 16
11. 3 Forgetting the Britons in Victorian Anglo-Saxon Archaeology 27
12. 4 Romano-British Metalworking and the Anglo-Saxons 42
13. 5 Invisible Britons, Gallo-Romans and Russians: Perspectives on Culture Change 57
14. 6 Historical Narrative as Cultural Politics: Rome, ‘British-ness’ and ‘English-ness’ 68
15. 7 British Wives and Slaves? Possible Romano-British Techniques in ‘Women’s Work’ 80
16. 8 Early Mercia and the Britons 91
17. 9 Britons in Early Wessex: The Evidence of the Law Code of Ine 102
18. 10 Apartheid and Economics in Anglo-Saxon England 115
19. 11 Welsh Territories and Welsh Identities in Late Anglo-Saxon England 130
20. 12 Some Welshmen in Domesday Book and Beyond: Aspects of Anglo-Welsh Relations in the Eleventh Century 144
21. Part II: Linguistic Perspectives
22. 13 What Britons Spoke around 400 AD 165
23. 14 Invisible Britons: The View from Linguistics 172
24. 15 Why Don’t the English Speak Welsh? 192
25. 16 Place-Names and the Saxon Conquest of Devon and Cornwall 215
26. 17 Mapping Early Medieval Language Change in South-West England 231
27. Index 245