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IN its cultural history, the county of Kent stands apart from the rest of England. For this its geographical position is in some measure responsible. As the main gateway to the south of England from the Continent, it has been peculiarly exposed to outside influence. Its individual character was recognised in Saxon times. The Venerable Bede records the tradition that Kent, with the Isle of Wight and parts of Hampshire, had been settled by the Jutes. Archseologically, the distinction is marked by the development in Saxon times of a rich and characteristic material culture, showing affinities with the Continent. In the northern area, however, a culture more in conformity with that of the rest of Saxon England would seem to afford ground for regarding the popular distinction between “Men of Kent” and “Kentish Men” as the survival of a real tribal or racial difference.
Pre-Feudal England: The Jutes.
By J. E. A. Jolliffe. (Oxford Historical Series.) Pp. x + 122. (London: Oxford University Press, 1933.) 7s. 6d. net.
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Pre-Feudal England: The Jutes. Nature 132, 915 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132915a0
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