LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ryan lavelle

4 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: ryan lavelle

  • Royal Estates in Anglo-Saxon Wessex
    Ryan Lavelle
    This work, focusing on specific categories of royal estates, concentrates on the later Anglo-Saxon period in England (the mid-ninth century to the mid-eleventh AD). These centuries were a formative period in early medieval history, in which a state can be seen to have developed from a small kingdom to take control of lowland Britain, and, indeed, exert political influence over ...
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    80,05 €

  • Places of Contested Power
    Ryan Lavelle
    First full examination of why and how certain locations were chosen for opposition to power, and the meaning they conveyed. The direct contestation of power played a crucial role in early medieval politics. Such actions, often expressed through violence, reveal much about established authorities, power and lordship. Here the hitherto neglected role of place and landscape in act...
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    156,93 €

  • Alfred’s Wars
    Ryan Lavelle
    Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title. 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 t...
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    40,53 €

  • Alfred’s Wars
    Ryan Lavelle
    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 the present...
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    153,58 €