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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Viking wars
    sub title: war and peace in King Alfred's Britain, 789-955
  name:
    name part: Adams, Max
    name part: 1961-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 509 pages : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954. In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hybrid cultures, vibrant and entrepreneurial peoples adapting to instability and opportunity. Traditionally, Alfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain. But author Max Adams, while stressing the genius of Alfred as war leader, lawgiver and forger of the English nation, has a more nuanced narrative approach to this conventional version of history. The Britain encountered by the Scandinavians of the ninth and tenth centuries was one of regional diversity and self-conscious cultural identities, depicted in glorious narrative fashion in The Viking Wars.
  note: Max Adams.
  note: Maps on lining papers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: King of England
      name part: Alfred
      name part: 849-899
    topic: Military leadership
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: Alfred, 871-899
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History, Military
    temporal: 449-1066
  subject:
    topic: Vikings
    topic: Warfare
    geographic: England
  classification: DA153 .A26 2018
  classification: 942.01/64
  identifier: 1681777975
  identifier: 9781681777979
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 171011
    record change date: 20181024083946.0
    record identifier: in00004005522