Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar, 878-975
Title | Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar, 878-975 PDF eBook |
Author | D. N. Dumville |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1986 |
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ISBN | 9780851154305 |
Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar
Title | Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar PDF eBook |
Author | D. N. Dumville |
Publisher | Studies in Anglo-Saxon History |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
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An important study of the emergence of the kingdom of England in the first half of the 10th century. This book is concerned with aspects of the revival of English military, ecclesiastical, and intellectual strength in the period from King Alfred's defeat of the Great Danish Army at Edington in 878 to that of the triumph of Benedictinism in the of Edgar, king of England959-975. Studying intellectual developments of the first half of the10th century, Dr Dumville argues that those decades were a period of continuation of the Alfredian renascence and he looks back into that king's troubled but productive reign to discover new aspects of his thinking and to offer some new interpretations of his actions.These were also the years in which the kingdom of England was formed: attention is therefore given to King Æthelstan, its creator. This series of new studies draws on fresh manuscript-evidence as well as reinterpreting texts long known to historians. By bringing together the testimonies of a wide variety of sources, it seeks to provide the basis on which a new history of the period may be written. DAVID N. DUMVILLE is Reader in the Early Mediaeval History and Culture of the British Isles at the University of Cambridge.
A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Revolution in 1688
Title | A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Revolution in 1688 PDF eBook |
Author | John Sherren Brewer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 882 |
Release | 1880 |
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A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Revolution in 1688
Title | A History of England from the Earliest Times to the Revolution in 1688 PDF eBook |
Author | David Hume |
Publisher | |
Pages | 868 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
A History of England
Title | A History of England PDF eBook |
Author | David Hume |
Publisher | |
Pages | 886 |
Release | 1887 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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British History Chronologically Arranged ...
Title | British History Chronologically Arranged ... PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Hassall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 602 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
An Outline of English History for Use in High Schools and Colleges
Title | An Outline of English History for Use in High Schools and Colleges PDF eBook |
Author | Norman Maclaren Trenholme |
Publisher | |
Pages | 144 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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