Albany F. Major

Early Wars of Wessex

Herausgeber: Whistler, Charles W.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Major's 1913 work used documentary, archaeological, place-name and landscape evidence to reinterpret the history of Anglo-Saxon Wessex.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9781108010085
• ISBN-10: 1108010083
• Artikelnr.: 31087411

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1. The Founding and Rise of Wessex: 1. The founding of the kingdom, 495 to 519 AD
2. Cerdic to Kenwealh 519 to 643 AD
3. The Frontier between Wessex and Dyvnaint
4. The wars of Kenwealh 643 to 672 AD
5. The wars of Kentwine 676 to 686 AD
6. The wars of Ine 688 to 710 AD
7. The final stages of the conquest of Dyvnaint 710 to 822 AD
8. Summary. The wider influence of local struggles
Part 2. Wessex and the Danes: 1. The earliest westward adventurers
2. The Danes in North Somerset
3. The Invasions in the ninth century
4. The invasions in the tenth and eleventh centuries
Part 3. The Wessex Campaigns of 876-7 AD: 1. The taking of Wareham and Exeter
2. Twelfth night to Whitsuntide, 878 AD
3. The battle of Ethandun, and the peace
4. The place-names of the campaign
5. The landing of Hubba
6. The fortress of the siege
Appendices
Index.