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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Adams, Max, 1961-     Subjects     Alfred, King of England, 849-899 -- Military leadership.     Vikings -- Warfare -- England.     Great Britain -- History -- Alfred, 871-899.     Great Britain -- History, Military -- 449-1066.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Adams, Max, 1961-       by title:      The Viking wars : wa...       by call number:      942.0164 A215v     Search the Web     Adams, Max, 1961-     Alfred, King of England, 849-899 -- Military leadership.     Vikings -- Warfare -- England.     Great Britain -- History -- Alfred, 871-899.     Great Britain -- History, Military -- 449-1066.       MARC Display

The Viking wars : war and peace in King Alfred's Britain, 789-955 / Max Adams. by Adams, Max, 1961- Pegasus Books, 2018. Call #: 942.0164 A215v Subjects Alfred, King of England, 849-899 -- Military leadership.   Vikings -- Warfare -- England.   Great Britain -- History -- Alfred, 871-899.   Great Britain -- History, Military -- 449-1066. ISBN:  9781681777979 (hc.) Edition:  1st Pegasus Books hardcover ed. Description:  xviii, 509 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) and index. Summary:  In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hybrid cultures: vibrant and entrepreneurial peoples adapting to instability and opportunity.Traditionally, Alfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain. But Max Adams, while stressing the genius of Alfred as war leader, law-giver, and forger of the English nation, has a more nuanced narrative approach to this conventional version of history. The Britain encountered by the Scandinavians of the ninth and tenth centuries was one of regional diversity and self-conscious cultural identities, depicted in glorious narrative fashion in The Viking Wars. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 942.0164 A215v Core Collection - Adult Checked out Jul 20, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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