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The defence of the 9th-century kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred against the 'Great Viking Army' is one of the major military achievements of Early ...
Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age
"Although this book provides a selection from sources and interpretations of warfare in Viking-Age England, and presents a consideration of them, it i...
The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, c. 800–c. 1100
There have been many studies of the Scandinavians in Britain, but this is the first collection of essays to be devoted solely to their engagement with...
The North Sea King
Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after a long period of Viking attacks and sett...
King of the English, 978-1016
This is a biography of Anglo-Saxon England's notoriously weak king, Aethelred II the 'Unready'....
Conflict and Rebellion in England and France, 830-1150
First full examination of why and how certain locations were chosen for opposition to power, and the meaning they conveyed....
The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, C.800-c.1100
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Land, Politics and Family Strategies
This study, a revisiting of the author's PhD thesis, looks at Royal landholding in the Wessex shires of Hampshire and Dorset in the later Anglo-Saxon ...
Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880
The Watlington Hoardwas discovered in southern Oxfordshire in 2015 by a metal-detectorist, and acquired by the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford in 2017. A nat...