"Stenton's Anglo-Saxon England was first published during the Second World War and immediately welcomed as the first scholarly account of those formative years of English history. It has held its place as the standard work on the period for fifty years. Scholarly interests have, however, inevitably changed over such a long period and it seemed appropriate to celebrate its half-century by attempting to give it critical assessment in a colloquium organised at Reading. The papers given on that occasion are published in this book."--BOOK JACKET.