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1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Kjlbye-Biddle -- Some observations on Danes in Wessex today / Lillian Cespedes Gonzalez. |
| Note |
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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Wessex (England) -- History.
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
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Wessex (England) -- Antiquities.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Lavelle, Ryan, editor, author.
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Roffey, Simon, editor, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Danes in Wessex : the Scandinavian impact on southern England, c.800-c.1100. Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2016 xv, 272 pages ; 25 cm 9781782979319 |
| ISBN |
9781782979319 (pbk.) |
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9781782979326 (electronic bk.) |
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