Description |
1 online resource |
Contents |
Introduction: Danes in Wessex / Ryan Lavelle and Simon Roffey -- West Saxons and Danes: negotiating identities in the early Middle Ages / Simon Roffey and Ryan Lavelle -- The place of slaughter: exploring the West Saxon battlescape / Thomas J. T. Williams -- A review of Viking attacks in western England to the early tenth century: their motives and responses / Derek Gore -- Landscapes of violence in early Medieval Wessex: towards a reassessment of Anglo-Saxon strategic landscapes / John Baker and Stuart Brookes -- Scandinavian-style metalwork from southern England: new light on the "first Viking age" in Wessex / Jane Kershaw -- Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: the discovery and excavation of an early Medieval mass burial / Angela Boyle -- Law, death and peacemaking in the "second Viking age": an ealdorman, his king, and some "Danes" in Wessex / Ryan Lavelle -- Thorkell the Tall and the bubble reputation: the vicissitudes of fame / Ann Williams -- A place in the country: Orc of Abbotsbury and Tole of Tolpuddle, Dorset / Ann Williams -- Danish landowners in Wessex in 1066 / C.P. Lewis -- Danish royal burials in Winchester: Cnut and his family / Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle -- Some observations on Danes in Wessex today / Lillian Céspedes González |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record |
Subject |
Danes -- England -- Wessex -- History
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Scandinavians -- England -- Wessex -- History
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Vikings -- England -- Wessex
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Antiquities
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Danes
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Scandinavians
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Vikings
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SUBJECT |
Wessex (England) -- History
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056730
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Wessex (England) -- Antiquities
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Subject |
England -- Wessex
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Lavelle, Ryan, editor, author
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Roffey, Simon, editor, author
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LC no. |
2015040995 |
ISBN |
9781782979326 |
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1782979328 |
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9781782979340 |
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1782979344 |
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9781782979333 |
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1782979336 |
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