Ebook: Alfred's Wars: Sources and Interpretations of Anglo-Saxon Warfare in the Viking Age

Frontcover; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Source Acknowledgements; Note on sources; Preface; 1 Introduction: A Society at War: Mentalities of Warfare in Later Anglo-Saxon England; Mentalities of Warfare in Later Anglo-Saxon England; Ealdorman Æthelweard: The writing of history and the experience of warfare in the tenth century; The study of later Anglo-Saxon warfare: Themes and their studies; Ideologies of war; Masculinity, youth and experience in Anglo-Saxon warfare; 2 Friends and Foes; Britons and the 'Kingdom of the English'; The advent of the Vikings.;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 the present 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.