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This is a survey of sources relating to early medieval groups referred to gentes. It argues that there was a fundamental change in the use of this term at the time of Bede who seems to have preferred the application of the term to larger territorialised groups, such as the Saxons and Angles in Britain.
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This article critically reconsiders research opinions related to early medieval group structure.
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: THE GERMANIC SETTLEMENT IN BRITAIN AND THE GENESIS OF THE ENGLISH, Archives The Journal of the British Records Association, October 2001, Liverpool University Press,
DOI: 10.3828/archives.2001.11.
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