1983/12/01 by Patrick Sims‐Williams · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Literature: history, themes, analysis #Historical Economic and Social Studies #Scottish History and National Identity
paper · doi:10.1017/s0263675100003331
openalex publication_date 1983/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
For the modern historian of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of England, 1849 should be a more significant date than 449. In 1849 John Mitchell Kemble published The Saxons in England . Earlier historians, even critical ones like Sharon Turner and J. M. Lappenberg, had basically retold the narratives of Bede and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , with picturesque details from Henry of Huntingdon and others. Kemble swept all that away: ‘I confess that the more I examine this question, the more completely I am convinced that the received accounts of our migrations, our subsequent fortunes, and ultimate settlement, are devoid of historical truth in every detail.’