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

Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title. 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 acomprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from the principal sources for our knowledge, accompanied by the most important interpretations by scholars through the ages, and new introductions by the present author. It looksat every aspect of the topic, from land and sea forces to logistics and campaigning, from fortifications and the battlefield to the final peacemaking. In so doing, it highlights the significance of warfare and its organisation for the late Anglo-Saxon state, and the multitude of ways in which it was recorded and remembered.

Dr Ryan Lavelle is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Winchester.

Author: Ryan Lavelle
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 07/19/2012
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781843837398
ISBN10: 1843837390
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Medieval
- History | Military | General