Read and Download eBook Full
Author: Martin Biddle
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-04-30
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 178491858X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of extensive archaeological excavations in Winchester from 1961 to 1970, showing how they led to the discovery of the Old and New Minsters and brought back to life the history, archaeology and architecture of the city’s greatest Anglo-Saxon buildings.
Author: Ryan Lavelle
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1789256267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinchester’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 arts and history writing, the reach of the city’s saints, and more. The essays contained in this volume present early medieval Winchester not as a city alone, but a city emmeshed in wider political, social, and cultural movements and, in many cases, providing examples of authority and power that are representative of early medieval England as a whole.
Author: Ben Jervis
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-11-17
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 1789690366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, produced in honour of Professor David A. Hinton’s contribution to medieval studies, re-visits the sites, archaeologists and questions which have been central to the archaeology of medieval southern England. Contributions are focused on the medieval period (from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Reformation) in southern England.
Author: Paul Hill
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Published: 2022-10-21
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1399010646
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this the second part of his four-volume military and political history of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Paul Hill follows the careers of Æthelflæd, Alfred the Great’s eldest daughter, and Edward the Elder, Alfred’s eldest son, as they campaigned to expand their rule after Alfred’s death. They faced, as Alfred had done, the full force of Danish hostility during the early years of the tenth century, a period of unrelenting turbulence and open warfare. But through their military strength, in particular their strategy of fortress building, they retained their hold on the kingdom and conquered lands which had been under Danish lords for generations. Æthelflæd’s forces captured Derby and Leicester by both force and diplomacy. Edward’s power was always immense. How each of them used forts (burhs) to hold territory, is explored. Fortifications across central England became key. These included Bridgnorth, Tamworth, Stafford, Warwick, Chirbury and Runcorn (Æthelflæd) and also Hertford, Witham, Buckingham, Bedford and Maldon (Edward), to name a few. Paul Hill’s absorbing narrative incorporates the latest theories and evidence for the military organization and capabilities of the Anglo-Saxons and their Danish adversaries. His book gives the reader a detailed and dramatic insight into a very sophisticated Anglo-Saxon kingdom.
Author: Marc Morris
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 164313535X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sweeping and original history of the Anglo-Saxons by national bestselling author Marc Morris. Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings. It explores how they abandoned their old gods for Christianity, established hundreds of churches and created dazzlingly intricate works of art. It charts the revival of towns and trade, and the origins of a familiar landscape of shires, boroughs and bishoprics. It is a tale of famous figures like King Offa, Alfred the Great and Edward the Confessor, but also features a host of lesser known characters - ambitious queens, revolutionary saints, intolerant monks and grasping nobles. Through their remarkable careers we see how a new society, a new culture and a single unified nation came into being. Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - renowned historian Marc Morris illuminates a period of history that is only dimly understood, separates the truth from the legend, and tells the extraordinary story of how the foundations of England were laid.
Author: Geoffrey Sedlezky
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-08-24
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1803275766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. The author proposes a link between the design and function of parochial churches and chapels with the number and attributes of their doorways.
Author: Martin Biddle
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2022-03-24
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1803270675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis wide-ranging study describes the natural environment of Winchester and its immediate surroundings from the late Iron Age to the early post-medieval period. Historical and archaeological evidence consider humanity's interactions with the environment, fashioning agricultural, gardening and horticultural regimes over a millennium and a half.
Author: Michael John Key
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2019-03-15
Total Pages: 519
ISBN-13: 1445684780
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first biography of Alfred the Great's son, the forgotten king who was crucial to uniting England.
Author: Francis M. Morris
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-12-28
Total Pages: 1402
ISBN-13: 1803276819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is a detailed study of the archaeology of Roman Winchester—Venta Belgarum, a major town in the south of the province of Britannia— and its development from the regional (civitas) capital of the Iron Age people, the Belgae, who inhabited much of what is now central and southern Hampshire.
Author: Anne Pedersen
Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Published: 2020-09-25
Total Pages: 636
ISBN-13: 877184936X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.
