Table of Contents

History and myth, forgery and truth; introduction to the making of England; the creation and early structure of the kingdom of Kent; the formation of the Mercian kingdom; the English origin myth; the eccelsiastical topography of early medieval Canterbury; the Anglo-Saxon cathedral community at Canterbury, 597-1070; the career of St Dunstan; Anglo-Saxon charters; recent approaches, a new charter of King Edgar, the oldest document in the college archives, the Micheldever forgery; Romney marsh in the early Middle Ages.

About the Author

Nicholas Brooks is Professor of History at the University of Birmingham, UK.