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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465812303321

Titolo

Danes in Wessex : the Scandinavian impact on southern England, c.800-c.1100 / / edited by Ryan Lavelle, Simon Roffey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; Philadelphia : , : Oxbow Books, , 2016

ISBN

1-78297-932-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

942.201

Soggetti

Danes - England - Wessex - History

Scandinavians - England - Wessex - History

Vikings - England - Wessex

Electronic books.

Wessex (England) History

Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066

Wessex (England) Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.