| Slide1 : Dark Ages
Anglo Saxon Period
(449 – 1066) |
| Slide2 : United Streaming clip During the sixth and seventh centuries these Germanic invaders started to carve out kingdoms, fighting both the native Britons and each other for land. Angles, Saxons and Jutes invade Briton |
| Slide3 : First called Saxons, the German invaders were later referred to as Angles.
As time passed, the differences between the Germanic tribal cultures gradually unified until eventually they ceased referring to themselves by their individual origins and became either Anglo-Saxon or English.
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| Conversion to Christianity : Conversion to Christianity By the year 550ce, the native Britons had been converted to Christianity and the religion became firmly established within their culture. |
| Vikings attack : Vikings attack The 8th century and the beginning of the Viking raids
Words acquired during this period pertained to the sea and the Scandinavian administrative system. Some examples of these borrowings are law, take, cut, anger, wrong, freckle, both, ill, ugly, as well as, the verb form 'are'.
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| Slide6 : Anglo-Saxons distinguished between two people with the same name by adding either the place they came from or the job they did to their first name. Modern surnames such as Baxter, Baker, Weaver, Fisher, Fowler, Hunter, and Farmer are Anglo-Saxon in origin.
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| Slide7 : Vikings had a different way of distinguishing between people The of the same name. They added the name of the person's father or mother to the child's name. As an example, Harald, the son of Erik would be known as Harald Erik's son, or as we would say it today, Harald Erikson. |
| Society : Society The Anglo-Saxon territory was divided into seven separate kingdoms commonly referred to as the heptarchy. Each kingdom was ruled by a king, the king's sons who were called aethlings and the ruling nobility known as the eoldermen. |
| Slide9 : By the middle of the ninth century the royal family of Wessex was universally recognized as the English royal family and held a hereditary right to rule. Succession to the throne was not guaranteed as the witan, or council of leaders, had the right to choose the best successor from the members of the royal house.
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| Slide10 : The early Anglo-Saxon society was organized around clans or tribes and was centered around a system of reciprocity called comitatus. The eoldorman expected martial service and loyalty from his thanes, and the thanes expected protection and rewards from the lord. http://www.uta.edu/english/tim/courses/4301f98/oct12.html |