Danes in Wessex : the Scandinavian impact on southern England, c.800-c.1100 /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Lavelle, Ryan (Editor), Roffey, Simon (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2016.
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Table of 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.