Crossing the Waters: Britain in the Dark Age
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The Seven Kingdoms in the Dark Ages
These new kingdoms were largely built and organized around germanic bands, a lot like i described before in my lecture on back to the dark age. A sort of social world centered on a chieftain's great hall, which was usually a big timber structure with a hearth in centre. And beyond the hall, you would then have small villages and scattered sort of clusters of family farms, and ultimately households with their own little territories and holdings. These farming households were organized into groups called hundreds. And these hundreds would basically manage justice within their own limited realms. So they'd be able to arrest and imprison people, make their own laws and ordinances, manage communal resources. When some one was
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