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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
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 Kjølbye-Biddle -- Some observations on Danes in Wessex today / Lillian Céspedes González. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Danes -- England -- Wessex -- History.
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Danes. |
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England -- Wessex. |
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History. |
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Wessex (England) -- History.
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Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
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Scandinavians -- England -- Wessex -- History.
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Scandinavians. |
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Vikings -- England -- Wessex.
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Vikings. |
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Wessex (England) -- Antiquities.
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| Chronological Term |
449-1066 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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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. Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015 9781782979319 (DLC) 2015031241 |
| ISBN |
9781782979326 (electronic book) |
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1782979328 (electronic book) |
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9781782979340 (electronic book) |
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1782979344 (electronic book) |
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9781782979333 |
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1782979336 |
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9781782979319 (paperback) |
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178297931X |
| Standard No. |
40025727936 |
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