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The Timeline of conflict in Anglo-Saxon Britain is concerned with the period of history from just before the departure of the Roman Army, in the 4th century, to just after the Norman Conquest in the 11th century. The information is mainly derived from annals and the Venerable Bede. The dates, particularly from the fourth to the late sixth centuries, have very few contemporary sources and are largely later constructions by medieval chroniclers.〔Gransden. Historical Writing. Ch. 1. Gildas and Nennius〕 The historian Diana Greenway described one such 12th century chronicler, Henry of Huntingdon, as a 'weaver' compiler of history, and the archaeologist Martin Welch described the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' as "a product of the West Saxon court... concerned with glorifying the royal ancestry of Alfred the Great. Manipulation of royal genealogies, in this and other sources, to enhance the claims of present rulers was common. Literary formulas associated with original myths are a common feature of earlier entries."〔Huntingdon. ''Historia Anglorum.'' p. 97〕〔Welch. ''Anglo-Saxon England''. p. 9.〕 Although the timeline uses the annals for this period of history, information provided by these sources can be problematic, particularly with the earlier dates. ==Chronology== Constructing a chronology of the early Anglo-Saxon period, and how the Anglo-Saxons took over land in Britain from Celtic-speaking or Latin-speaking Romano-Britons, is highly complex. The limitations of source material place restrictions on just how accurate any chronology can be. As an example, the following table shows how much variation there is between historians on just one date, the Battle of Badon: Much of the dating of the period comes from Bede (672/673–735), who in his ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'', tried to compute dates for events in early Anglo-Saxon history.〔Gransden. Historical Writing. pp. 11–23〕 Although primarily writing about church history, Bede is seen as Britain's first true historian, in that he cited his references and listed events according to dates rather than regnal lists.〔 So we know that he relied heavily on ''De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae'' by Gildas, a sixth-century cleric, for his early dates and historians have found Gildas unreliable where dates were concerned.〔Bede. Ecclesiastical History. Farmer Ed. p. 24.〕 Bede's work was widely read among the literate in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, and his dates were used by the monks who compiled the various Anglo-Saxon Chronicles from the late ninth century onwards.〔Alfred the Great. Asser.(2004) pp. 275–281. - Discussion of sources, authors, dates and accuracy〕 The most controversial dates in the period—those from the fourth to the late sixth centuries—have very few contemporary sources, and are mainly derived from later attempts to construct Anglo-Saxon history.〔 The following is an outline of some events recorded in Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History'', the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', the ''Welsh Annals'' (''Annales Cambriae''), and ''Brut y Tywysogion''. Many of the dates from the fourth, fifth, and sixth century are points of contention.〔J. Campbell, 'The Lost Centuries: 400–600' in ''The Anglo-Saxons''. ed. J. Campbell, et al.) pp. 20–44〕 :AC = "from the ''Annales Cambriae''" (English translation (at this link )). :ASC = "from the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle''". :B = "from Bede's writings". :ByT = "from ''Brut y Tywysogion''". :(?) = Dates and events that are contentious or subject to debate. 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「Timeline of conflict in Anglo-Saxon Britain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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