Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age - Paperback
by Ryan Lavelle
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ryan LavelleSeries:Warfare in HistoryPublish date:2012-07-19Pages:400
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Boydell PressISBN-13:9781843837398ISBN-10:1843837390UPC:9781843837398Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, MilitaryBook Topic:MedievalSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.5Product ID:SCEFDF7YVS
Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare. Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title. The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon period had momentous consequences for the development of the English state following Alfred the Great's reign. This book provides acomprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from the principal sources for our knowledge, accompanied by the most important interpretations by scholars through the ages, and new introductions by the present author. It looksat every aspect of the topic, from land and sea forces to logistics and campaigning, from fortifications and the battlefield to the final peacemaking. In so doing, it highlights the significance of warfare and its organisation for the late Anglo-Saxon state, and the multitude of ways in which it was recorded and remembered. Dr Ryan Lavelle is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Boydell PressISBN-13:9781843837398ISBN-10:1843837390UPC:9781843837398Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Europe, MilitaryBook Topic:MedievalSize:9.20 x 6.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.5Product ID:SCEFDF7YVS
Lavelle, Ryan: - Ryan Lavelle is a senior lecturer in medieval history at the University of Winchester where he teaches on Anglo-Saxon England, the Normans and the Norman Conquest, and the Carolingian Renaissance. His specialises in Late Anglo-Saxon political history, including royal landholding, especially in Wessex, and early medieval warfare.
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