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Book The Ancient Ways of Wessex

Download or read book The Ancient Ways of Wessex written by Alexander Langlands and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2019-11-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells the story of Wessex’s roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historical record. This is the age of the Anglo-Saxons and an era that witnessed the rise of a kingdom that was taken to the very brink of defeat by the Viking invasions of the ninth century. It is a period that goes on to become one within which we can trace the beginnings of the political entity we have come to know today as England. In a series of ten detailed case studies the reader is invited to consider historical and archaeological evidence, alongside topographic information and ancient place-names, in the reconstruction of the networks of routeways and communications that served the people and places of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Whether you were a peasant, pilgrim, drover, trader, warrior, bishop, king or queen, travel would have been fundamental to life in the early middle ages and this book explores the physical means by which the landscape was constituted to facilitate and improve the movement of people, goods and ideas from the seventh through to the eleventh centuries. What emerges is a dynamic web of interconnecting routeways serving multiple functions and one, perhaps, even busier than that in our own working countryside. A narrative of transition, one of both of continuity and change, provides a fresh and alternative window into the everyday workings of an early medieval landscape through the pathways trodden over a millennium ago.

Book Danes in Wessex

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  • Author : Ryan Lavelle
  • Publisher : Oxbow Books
  • Release : 2015-11-30
  • ISBN : 1782979344
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Danes in Wessex written by Ryan Lavelle and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 traditionally associated with them. Here, a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the problems of their study is presented. While there may not have been the same degree of impact, discernible particularly in place-names and archaeology, as in those areas of Britain which had substantial influxes of Scandinavian settlers, Wessex was a major theater of the Viking wars in the reigns of Alfred and Æthelred Unræd. Two major topics, the Viking wars and the Danish landowning elite, figure strongly in this collection but are shown not to be the sole reasons for the presence of Danes, or items associated with them, in Wessex. Multidisciplinary approaches evoke Vikings and Danes not just through the written record, but through their impact on real and imaginary landscapes and via the objects they owned or produced. The papers raise wider questions too, such as when did aggressive Vikings morph into more acceptable Danes, and what issues of identity were there for natives and incomers in a province whose founders were believed to have also come from North Sea areas, if not from parts of Denmark itself? Readers can continue for themselves aspects of these broader debates that will be stimulated by this fascinating and significant series of studies by both established scholars and new researchers.

Book Cr  ft

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  • Author : Alex Langlands
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton
  • Release : 2018
  • ISBN : 9780393635904
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Cr ft written by Alex Langlands and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An archaeologist takes us into the ancient world of traditional crafts to uncover their deep, original histories.

Book Wessex

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  • Author : Barbara Yorke
  • Publisher : Leicester University Press
  • Release : 1998-04-22
  • ISBN : 9780718518561
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Wessex written by Barbara Yorke and published by Leicester University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wessex is central to the study of early medieval English history; it was the dynasty which created the kingdom of England. This volume uses archaeological and place-name evidence to present an authoritative account of the most significant of the English Kingdoms.

Book The Land of the English Kin

Download or read book The Land of the English Kin written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 717 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship’s most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine contributions demonstrate the indelible impression Barbara Yorke’s work has made on her peers and a generation of new scholars, some of whom have benefitted directly from her tutorage. From the identities that emerged in the immediate post-Roman period, through to the development of kingdoms, the role of the church, and impacts felt beyond the eleventh century, the rich and diverse character of the studies presented here are testimony to the versatility and extensive range of the honorand’s contribution to the academic field.

Book Wessex

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  • Author : Barbara Yorke
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 1995-08-01
  • ISBN : 0567244202
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Wessex written by Barbara Yorke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-08-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wessex is central to the study of early medieval English history; it was the dynasty which created the kingdom of England. This volume uses archaeological and place-name evidence to present an authoritative account of the most significant of the English Kingdoms.

Book The Medieval Way of War

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  • Author : Gregory I. Halfond
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-03-09
  • ISBN : 1317024192
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book The Medieval Way of War written by Gregory I. Halfond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few historians have argued so forcefully or persuasively as Bernard S. Bachrach for the study of warfare as not only worthy of scholarly attention, but demanding of it. In his many publications Bachrach has established unequivocally the relevance of military institutions and activity for an understanding of medieval European societies, polities, and mentalities. In so doing, as much as any scholar of his generation, he has helped to define the status quaestionis for the field of medieval military history. The Medieval Way of War: Studies in Medieval Military History in Honor of Bernard S. Bachrach pays tribute to its honoree by gathering in a single volume seventeen original studies from an international roster of leading experts in the military history of medieval Europe. Ranging chronologically from Late Antiquity through the Later Middle Ages (ca. AD 300-1500), and with a broad geographical scope stretching from the British Isles to the Middle East, these diverse studies address an array of critical themes and debates relevant to the conduct of war in medieval Europe. These themes include the formation and implementation of military grand strategies; the fiscal, material, and administrative resources that underpinned the conduct of war in medieval Europe; and religious, legal, and artistic responses to military violence. Collectively, these seventeen studies embrace the interdisciplinarity and topical diversity intrinsic to Bachrach’s research. Additionally, they strongly echo his conviction that the study of armed conflict is indispensable for an accurate and comprehensive understanding of medieval European history.

Book The Ancient Ways   Winchester Fifty Years Ago

Download or read book The Ancient Ways Winchester Fifty Years Ago written by William Tuckwell and published by Crawford Press. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Book Henry Stephens s Book of the Farm

Download or read book Henry Stephens s Book of the Farm written by Alex Langlands and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2013-07-10 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of the Farm, written by the 19th-century farming expert Henry Stephens, was the indispensable farming 'bible' referred to by the historians living and working on the BBC series Victorian Farm. This brand new version has been fully revised and edited by Alex Langlands, who starred on the programme, to bring its timeless wisdom to a fresh audience. Beautifully illustrated throughout with both black-and-white and colour illustrations, the book is a complete guide to the farming year, from planting thorn hedges in winter to pulling up potatoes in autumn. Along the way it gives fascinating information about every aspect of farming, from sheep shearing to bringing in the harvest, and practical instructions for skills such as cheese- making, animal husbandry, sheepdog training and other traditional country pastimes. Although farming has changed irrevocably since the 19th century, there are some aspects that remain timeless, and this exquisite book is a nostalgic celebration of our rural past.

Book The Book of Wilton

Download or read book The Book of Wilton written by Chris Rousell and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The photographs in this volume, many of them previously unpublished, are a vital record of the history and inhabitants of this ancient settlement brought together from across the community.

Book Ancient Earthworks of Wessex

Download or read book Ancient Earthworks of Wessex written by Gerald Ponting and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Land of the English Kin

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  • Author : Alex Langlands
  • Publisher : Brill's the Early Middle Ages
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 9789004349490
  • Pages : 695 pages

Download or read book The Land of the English Kin written by Alex Langlands and published by Brill's the Early Middle Ages. This book was released on 2020 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume draws together a series of papers that present some of the most up-to-date thinking on the history, archaeology and toponymy of Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England more broadly. In honour of one of early medieval European scholarship's most illustrious doyennes, no less than twenty-nine contributions demonstrate the indelible impression Barbara Yorke's work has made on her peers and a generation of new scholars, some of whom have benefitted directly from her tutorage. From the identities that emerged in the immediate post-Roman period, through to the development of kingdoms, the role of the church, and impacts felt beyond the eleventh century, the rich and diverse character of the studies presented here are testimony to the versatility and extensive range of the honorand's contribution to the academic field"--

Book Ancient Trackways of Wessex

Download or read book Ancient Trackways of Wessex written by Harold William Timperley and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ancient Burial mounds of England

Download or read book The Ancient Burial mounds of England written by L.V. Grinsell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1936 and rewritten in 1953, this book embodies the results of the author’s extensive researches and fieldwork. Part one considers types of barrows and dating, their building and the cult of the dead from Palaeolithic to Saxon times. A chapter is dedicated to maps and another to fieldwork in particular, while the final bit of the introductory material discussed barrow-digging from the time of the Romans to the twentieth century. Part two is the regional surveys, from Cornwall to Kent and northwards to the Scottish border.

Book Anglo Saxon Kingdoms

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  • Author : Captivating History
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-06-06
  • ISBN : 9781647487843
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Anglo Saxon Kingdoms written by Captivating History and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book T  P  s Weekly

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 866 pages

Download or read book T P s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas Hardy s Shorter Fiction

Download or read book Thomas Hardy s Shorter Fiction written by Sophie Gilmartin and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2007-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study of Hardy's short stories provides a thorough account of the ruling preoccupations and recurrent writing strategies of his entire corpus as well as providing detailed readings of several individual texts. It relates the formal choices imposed on Hardy as contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and other periodicals to the methods he employed to encode in fiction his troubled attitude towards the social politics of the West Country, where most of the stories are set. No previous criticism has shown how the powerful challenges to the reader mounted in Hardy's later stories reveal the complexity of his motivations during a period when he was moving progressively in the direction of exchanging fiction for poetry. * Unique in providing a comprehensive criticism of Hardy's entire output of short stories. * Full, detailed, close readings of a number of key stories make this useful as a potential teaching resource. * Draws on the work of social historians to make clear the background of social and political unrest in Dorset that is partly uncovered and partly hidden in Hardy's portrayals of his fictional Wessex. * Offers fascinating insights into Hardy's near-obsession in his mature phase with the marriage contract, and with its legal binding of erratic men and women.