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UNINA9910808953103321 |
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Titolo |
Danes in Wessex : the Scandinavian impact on southern England, c.800-c.1100 / / edited by Ryan Lavelle, Simon Roffey |
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Oxford ; ; Philadelphia : , : Oxbow Books, , 2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Danes - England - Wessex - History |
Scandinavians - England - Wessex - History |
Vikings - England - Wessex |
Wessex (England) History |
Great Britain History Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 |
Wessex (England) Antiquities |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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