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Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age (Paperback)
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Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age (Paperback)
Series: Warfare in History
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Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering
a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare. Selected by Choice as
an Outstanding Academic Title. The warfare of the late Anglo-Saxon
period had momentous consequences for the development of the
English state following Alfred the Great's reign. This book
provides acomprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from
the principal sources for our knowledge, accompanied by the most
important interpretations by scholars through the ages, and new
introductions by the present author. It looksat every aspect of the
topic, from land and sea forces to logistics and campaigning, from
fortifications and the battlefield to the final peacemaking. In so
doing, it highlights the significance of warfare and its
organisation for the late Anglo-Saxon state, and the multitude of
ways in which it was recorded and remembered. Dr Ryan Lavelle is
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of
Winchester.
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