基本説明
This book provides a comprehensive guide, with extracts in translation from the principal sources for our knowledge, accompanied by the most important interpretations by scholars through the ages.
Full Description
Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.
Selected by Choice for the 2011 list of Outstanding Academic Titles.
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 a comprehensive 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 thepresent author. It looks at 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 warfareand 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.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: A Society at War: Mentalities of Warfare in Later Anglo-Saxon England
Friends and Foes
Organisation and Equipment: Land
Organisation and Equipment: Maritime
Campaigns and Strategies
Fortifications
Fields of Slaughter: Battles and Battlefields
After the Battle: Peacemaking and Peace Agreements
Conclusions
Appendix: Timeline
Bibliography
