The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century: An ... - Google Books

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The Continental Saxons developed from a subsistence economy, practiced up to the Carolingian conquest in the late eighth century, to become rulers of the Holy Roman Empire a little over a century and a half later. A historian introduces the topic,…