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  • Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age

    by Ryan Lavelle ...
    Selected by Choice for the 2011 list of Outstanding Academic Titles.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 a comprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from the principal sources for our knowledge, accompanied by the most important interpretations by scholars ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Early Medieval Winchester

    Communities, Authority and Power in an Urban Space, c.800-c.1200

    Edited by Ryan Lavelle, Simon Roffey, Katherine Weikert ...
    Winchester’s identity as a royal centre became well established between the ninth and twelfth centuries, closely tied to the significance of the religious communities who lived within and without the city walls. The reach of power of Winchester was felt throughout England and into the Continent through the relationships of the bishops, the power fluctuations of the Norman period, the pursuit of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Danes in Wessex

    The Scandinavian Impact on Southern England, c. 800–c. 1100

    Edited by Ryan Lavelle, Simon Roffey ...
    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 Wessex. New work on the early Middle Ages, not least the excavations of mass graves associated with the Viking Age in Dorset and Oxford, drew attention to the gaps in our understanding of the wider impact of Scandinavians in areas of Britain not ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cnut (Penguin Monarchs)

    The North Sea King

    by Ryan Lavelle ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'A reputation as a ruthless ruler was sealed that would last beyond his lifetime. In that respect, at least, Cnut had succeeded...'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 settlement, his reign could have permanently shifted eleventh-century England's rule to Scandinavia. Stretching his ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Fortifications in Wessex c. 800–1066

    by Ryan Lavelle ...
    Series Book 14 - Fortress
    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 Medieval history.While the guerrilla warfare in the Somerset marshes and the battle of Edington are characteristic of Alfred's military abilities, his definitive physical achievement was a series of some 30 well-structured fortifications (known as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Aethelred the Unready (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Failed King

    by Richard Abels ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    'Æthelred's reign of nearly thirty-eight years was the longest of any Anglo-Saxon ruler. If he had died in AD 1000, history would have remembered him more kindly'Few monarchs of the Middle Ages have had a worse popular reputation than Æthelred II, 'the Unready', remembered as the king who lost England to Viking invaders. But, as Richard Abels shows, the failure to defend his realm was not entirely ... Read more

    $8.59 USD

  • Edward the Confessor (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Sainted King

    by David Woodman ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Edward the Confessor, the last great king of Anglo-Saxon England, canonized nearly 100 years after his death, is in part a figure of myths created in the late middle ages.In this revealing portrait of England's royal saint, David Woodman traces the course of Edward's twenty-four-year-long reign through the lens of contemporary sources, from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Vita Ædwardi Regis to ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

  • William I (Penguin Monarchs)

    England's Conqueror

    by Marc Morris ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    On Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman king of England. It was a disaster: soldiers outside, thinking shouts of acclamation were treachery, torched the surrounding buildings. To later chroniclers, it was an omen of the catastrophes to come.During the reign of William the Conqueror, England experienced greater and more seismic change than at ... Read more

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  • Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Making of England

    by Tom Holland ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    The formation of England occurred against the odds: an island divided into rival kingdoms, under savage assault from Viking hordes. But, after King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex and his son Edward expanded it, his grandson Athelstan inherited the rule of both Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and was hailed as Rex totius Britanniae: 'King of the whole of Britain'.Tom Holland ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

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  • The First Kingdom

    Britain in the age of Arthur

    by Max Adams ...
    Series series The Founders of Britain Quartet
    The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'.'Not just a valuable book, but a distinctive one as well' Tom Holland, Sunday Times'An accessible and illuminating book' Gerard de Groot, The Times'A fascinating picture of Britain's new-found independence' This EnglandSome... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Richard I (Penguin Monarchs)

    The Crusader King

    by Thomas Asbridge ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Richard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol of national identity, he barely spent six months on English soil during a ten-year reign and spoke French as his first language. Contemporaries dubbed him the 'Lionheart', reflecting a carefully cultivated reputation for bravery, prowess and knightly virtue, but ... Read more

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  • Edward III (Penguin Monarchs)

    A Heroic Failure

    by Jonathan Sumption ...
    Series series Penguin Monarchs
    Edward III lived through bloody and turbulent times. His father was deposed by his mother and her lover when he was still a teenager; a third of England's population was killed by the Black Death midway through his reign; and the intractable Hundred Years War with France began under his leadership. Yet Edward managed to rule England for fifty years, and was viewed as a paragon of kingship in the ... Read more

    $6.19 USD