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In the history of Great Britain, Anglo-Saxon England refers to the historical land roughly corresponding to present-day England, as it existed from the 5th to the 11th century, but not including Devon and Cornwall until the 9th century. The Anglo-Saxons were the members of Germanic-speaking groups who migrated to the southern half of the island from continental Europe, and their cultural descendants. Anglo-Saxon history thus begins during the period of Sub-Roman Britain following the end of Roman control, and traces the establishment of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 5th and 6th centuries (conventionally identified as seven main kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, Sussex, and Wessex), their Christianisation during the 7th century, the threat of Viking invasions and Danish settlers, the gradual unification of England under Wessex hegemony during the 9th and 10th centuries, and ending with the Norman conquest of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. Anglo-Saxon identity survived beyond the Norman Conquest,〔Higham, Nicholas J., and Martin J. Ryan. The Anglo-Saxon World. Yale University Press, 2013. p7-19〕 and came to be known as Englishry under Norman rule and ultimately developed into the modern English people. ==Terminology== The Venerable Bede completed his book ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'' (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) in around 731. Thus the term for English people (Latin: ''gens Anglorum''; Anglo-Saxon: ''Anglecynn'') began to be used in the 8th century to distinguish "Germanic" groups in Britain from those on the continent.〔 The historian James Campbell, suggested that it was not until the late Anglo-Saxon period that England could be described as a nation state.〔Campbell. The Anglo-Saxon State. p.10〕 It is certain that the concept of "Englishness" only developed very slowly.〔Ward-Perkins, Bryan. "Why did the Anglo-Saxons not become more British?." The English Historical Review 115.462 (2000): 513–533.〕〔Hills, C. (2003) Origins of the English, Duckworth, London. ISBN 0-7156-3191-8, p. 67〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Anglo-Saxon England」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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