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Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age

By Ryan Lavelle

Book information

Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Year
2014
ISBN
9781782044956
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
12 MB (12992220 bytes)
Series
Warfare in History
Pages
400\0
Time added
2021-03-24 16:00:07

Description

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.

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