HIST 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Weregild, Sutton Hoo, Witenagemot
11 Apr 2015
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By around 600ad or so, things begin to stabilize and we see political consolidation, not of a kingdom of england (kingdom is any realm with a king). Anglo-saxon england had a heptarch, which was the development of seven kingdoms. The 7 kingdoms are usually in a rough hierarchy, one is usually dominant but it"s not the same during the period. Anglia and kent are very prominent, and then the torch passes to north umbria, then to. In some cases, the other kingdoms are client states of the leading kingdom of that time, which is based off the military prominence of that one kingdom. We can see from some of the most famous elements of medieval archeology, like the. Sutton hoo treasures from suffolk, which a great gravesite was found. In the 620s, there was a king named raedwald who consolidated rule there, it is thought but not proven by the grave; they"re now in the british museum.
