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Author Baker, John T. (Medieval historian)

Title Beyond the Burghal Hidage : Anglo-Saxon civil defence in the Viking age / by John Baker and Stuart Brookes
Published Leiden : Brill, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 480 pages) : illustrations
Series History of warfare ; v. 84
History of warfare ; v. 84.
Contents List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1. Anglo-Saxon civil defence: theory and historical context; Introduction: Why Study Civil Defence?; A Place for Civil Defence in State-Formation Theory ; Previous Work; Historical Overview; Beyond the Burghal Hidage; Terminology; 2. Characterizing Anglo-Saxon civil defence (Fortifications); Introduction: Archaeological Correlates for Militarism; Middle Anglo-Saxon Defensive Sites; Archaeological Evidence for Burghal Hidage Sites; Naming Anglo-Saxon Strongholds
Minor Defended Sites, Burgates, Turriform Churches, and Anglo-Saxon TowersDiscussion; Conclusions; 3. Characterising Anglo-Saxon civil defence (Communications); Introduction; Infrastructure and Communications; Information; The Venues of Warfare; Discussion; 4. The Kennet; Introduction; Defensive Sites of the Kennet Region; Roads and Intervisibility; Discussion; 5. Connections and Obstructions: The Thames in Anglo-Saxon Military Strategy; Introduction; The Strategic Landscape of the Thames; Discussion; Conclusion: The Development of the Thames System; 6. The defence of Kent; Introduction
The Evidence for Civil DefenceDiscussion; Conclusions and Wider Implications; 7. Civil defence and the English State, 800-1016; Introduction; Civil Defence: Strategy, Territoriality, and Royal Authority; Wider Implications; Bibliography; Index
Summary Beyond the Burghal Hidage takes the study of Anglo-Saxon civil defence away from traditional historical and archaeological fields, and uses a groundbreaking interdisciplinary approach to examine warfare and public responses to organised violence through their impact on the landscape
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Anglo-Saxons -- England -- Antiquities
Anglo-Saxons -- England -- History
Fortification -- England -- History -- To 1500
Civil defense -- England -- History -- To 1500
Boroughs -- England -- History -- To 1500
Hidage -- History -- To 1500
Landscapes -- England -- History -- To 1500
Names, Geographical -- England
Landscape archaeology -- England
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Anglo-Saxons
Anglo-Saxons -- Antiquities
Boroughs
Civil defense
Fortification
Hidage
Landscape archaeology
Landscapes
Names, Geographical
SUBJECT England -- History, Military
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Military history
Form Electronic book
Author Brookes, Stuart.
LC no. 2012049302
ISBN 9004246053
9789004246058