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Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival

David N. Dumville

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Description:This book is concerned with aspects of the revival of English military, ecclesiastical, and intellectual strength in the period from King Alfred's defeat of the Great Danish Army at Edington in 878 to that of the triumph of Benedictinism in the reign of Edgar, king of England 959 - 975. Studying intellectual developments of the first half of the10th century, Dr Dumville argues that those decades were a periodof continuation of the Alfredian renascence and he looks back intothat king's troubled but productive reign to discover new aspectsof his thinking and to offer some new interpretations of his actions. These were also the years in which the kingdom of England was formed: attention is therefore given to King �thelstan, its creator.This series of new studies draws on fresh manuscript-evidenceas well as reinterpreting texts long known to historians. By bringingtogether the testimonies of a wide variety of sources, it seeks toprovide the basis on which a new history of the period may be written.DAVID N. DUMVILLE is Reader in the Early Mediaeval History and Culture of the British Isles at the University of Cambridge.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival. To get started finding Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book is concerned with aspects of the revival of English military, ecclesiastical, and intellectual strength in the period from King Alfred's defeat of the Great Danish Army at Edington in 878 to that of the triumph of Benedictinism in the reign of Edgar, king of England 959 - 975. Studying intellectual developments of the first half of the10th century, Dr Dumville argues that those decades were a periodof continuation of the Alfredian renascence and he looks back intothat king's troubled but productive reign to discover new aspectsof his thinking and to offer some new interpretations of his actions. These were also the years in which the kingdom of England was formed: attention is therefore given to King �thelstan, its creator.This series of new studies draws on fresh manuscript-evidenceas well as reinterpreting texts long known to historians. By bringingtogether the testimonies of a wide variety of sources, it seeks toprovide the basis on which a new history of the period may be written.DAVID N. DUMVILLE is Reader in the Early Mediaeval History and Culture of the British Isles at the University of Cambridge.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival. To get started finding Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Six Essays on Political, Cultural and Ecclesiastical Revival, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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