Wessex

Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567244202
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Charles G. Harper
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wessex written by Charles G. Harper and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wessex" by Charles G. Harper. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : David Hill
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719032189
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Defence of Wessex written by David Hill and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 13 papers from a conference in May 1989 in Manchester, England, exploring aspects of the early 10th-century manuscript Burghal Hidage, which contains important information on the 33 places for which it lists the number of hides to be paid as tax. After a bibliographical review of previous studies and an edition and translation, they discuss manuscript evidence, the document, place names, administrative background, the fortification and their shires, and mints and burhs. Among the appendices are an annotated bibliography relating to the Tribal Hidage and a gazetteer of Burghal Hidage sites. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : S. Gatrell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230500250
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Hardy’s Vision of Wessex written by S. Gatrell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-11-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wessex did not spring full-born from Hardy's imagination when he began to write. The first part of the book reveals in detail how Wessex became what it is, geographically, socially and culturally, beginning with his fist poem in the 1860s and ending with Winter Words, his last collection of verse. The second (briefer) part is an account of the impact of Hardy's vision of Wessex on twentieth-century English culture, offering an explanation for Hardy's endurance as a popular novelist.

Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1782979328
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Martin J. P. Davies
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784910791
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Distant Prospect of Wessex: Archaeology and the Past in the Life and Works of Thomas Hardy. written by Martin J. P. Davies and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Davies examines Thomas Hardy's involvement with the past and the role it plays in his life and literary work. Hardy's life encompasses the transformation of archaeology out of mere antiquarianism into a fully scientific discipline. He observed this process at first hand, and its impact on his aesthetic and philosophical scheme was profound.

Author : Clive Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wessex written by Clive Holland and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Sealey
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445624192
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Wessex Coaches Ltd written by John Sealey and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-03-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of what was perhaps Bristol's biggest coach company.

Author : Hadrian Cook
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803275367
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wessex: A Landscape History written by Hadrian Cook and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an account of the physical form, development and operation of its landscape as it was shaped by our ancestors. Major themes include the development of agriculture, settlements, industry and transport.

Author : Barry Cunliffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317871618
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wessex to 1000 AD written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wessex -- the ancient counties of Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire -- is remarkable for its economic and social cohesion as a region, and for the extraordinary wealth of its ancient remains. In this authoritative survey, Barry Cunliffe sets the great monuments and famous sites in their full cultural context. His chief concern, however, is to interpret the landscape of the region, and the people who over so many centuries created it. In his hands it becomes an archaeological artefact as eloquent as Avebury and Stonehenge themselves.