title: The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction
author:  John Blair 
description: <br />John Blair is Fellow and Prelector in Modern History, The Queen's College, Oxford. His publications include <em>Early Medieval Surrey</em> (1991), <em>Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire</em> (1994), <em>Ministers and Parish Churches</em> (1988), <em>English Medieval Industries</em> (1991), <em>The Cloister and the World</em> (1996), and <em>The Church in</em> <em>Anglo-Saxon Society</em> (forthcoming).<br />
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