An Anglo-Saxon multiple estate was a large landholding controlled from a central location with surrounding subsidiary
settlements. These estates were present in the early Anglo-Saxon period, but fragmented into smaller units in the late
Anglo-Saxon period
Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom of ...
. Despite some academic criticism, the concept has been widely used and a large number of possible examples have been proposed.
Definition
The concept of an Anglo-Saxon multiple estate was developed by Professor Glanville Jones of
Leeds University
, mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased
, established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds
, ...
. The idea originally appeared in a paper published in 1961 and was fleshed out in a 1976 book on medieval settlement. The term "great estate" is sometimes used as an alternative to multiple estate.
These estates typically contained various features:
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Latin words and phrases
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