Does anyone know anything about Pre-Norman medieval English culture?
The challenge to answering your question is understanding the depth and the type of information you are seeking. Most of the information easily available on the net is rather superficial and significant data is available but usually in written form or for a fee through the net. For example, the Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature, is an excellent ‘on-line’ source but there is a subscription fee to access these research papers. If you could lay your hands on a copy of the works (specifically, ‘Feudalism: Its Frankish Birth and English Development) of William Stubbs I’m sure that it would provide much of what you are seeking. Other sources could be: • P.H. Saywer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: an Annotated List and Bibliography, (London, 1968) • N. Brooks, ‘Anglo-Saxon Charters: the Work of the Last Twenty Years’, Anglo-Saxon England, 3, (1974) • S.E. Kelly, ‘Anglo-Saxon Lay Society and the Written Word’, The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe. ed. R. McKitterick, (Cambridge: Cambri
