Danes in Wessex
Subtitle: the Scandinavian impact on southern England, c.800-c.1100
By: edited by Ryan Lavelle, Simon Roffey
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781782979319
Subjects: History; Danes; Antiquities; Vikings; Scandinavians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Danes in Wessex / Ryan Lavelle and Simon Roffey; title: West Saxons and Danes: negotiating identities in the early Middle Ages / Simon Roffey and Ryan Lavelle; title: The place of slaughter: exploring the West Saxon battlescape / Thomas J. T. Williams; title: A review of Viking attacks in western England to the early tenth century: their motives and responses / Derek Gore; title: Landscapes of violence in early Medieval Wessex: towards a reassessment of Anglo-Saxon strategic landscapes / John Baker and Stuart Brookes; title: Scandinavian-style metalwork from southern England: new light on the "first Viking age" in Wessex / Jane Kershaw; title: Death on the Dorset Ridgeway: the discovery and excavation of an early Medieval mass burial / Angela Boyle; title: Law, death and peacemaking in the "second Viking age": an ealdorman, his king, and some "Danes" in Wessex / Ryan Lavelle; title: Thorkell the Tall and the bubble reputation: the vicissitudes of fame / Ann Williams; title: A place in the country: Orc of Abbotsbury and Tole of Tolpuddle, Dorset / Ann Williams; title: Danish landowners in Wessex in 1066 / C.P. Lewis; title: Danish royal burials in Winchester: Cnut and his family / Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle; title: Some observations on Danes in Wessex today / Lillian Céspedes González.