British Battles 493-937

Mount Badon to Brunanburh

British Battles 493-937
Andrew Breeze
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Hardback
h229 x 153mm - 150pg
29 Feb 2020 UK
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9781785272233
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Correctly locates for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh.Correctly locating for the first time conflicts from Mount Badon to Brunanburh, British Battles 493-937 revolutionizes our understanding of early British history.British Battles 493-937 is one of the most revolutionary books ever published on war in Britain. It deals with thirteen conflicts, either locating them correctly or explaining some of their aspects which have puzzled historians. They include the following: Mount Badon (493) at Braydon, Wiltshire; battles of the British hero Arthur (the legendary 'King Arthur') (536-7) in southern Scotland or the borders; 'Degsastan' (603) at Dawyck, on the River Tweed, Scotland; Maserfelth (642) at Forden, on the Welsh border; the Viking victory of 'Alluthelia' (844) at Bishop Auckland, near Durham; and the English triumph of Brunanburh (937) was at Lanchester, also near Durham.
'Here Andrew Breeze combines his expertise in toponymy with a lively engagement in previous scholarship to locate early British battles, some involving - or not involving - King Arthur, others less familiar. His results cannot fail to set the archaeologists off in search of material evidence.' -Brian Murdoch, Professor Emeritus, University of Stirling, UK'Andrew Breeze is a veteran scholar of early medieval British history, with an encyclopedic knowledge of the sources. He is also willing to make daring connections, to illuminate what were long thought of as the darkest of ages. Every page of this rewarding book offers fresh insights, and opens the way to new questions, new framings, of that story.' -Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History, Institute for Studies of Religion, Baylor University, USA'Dr. Andrew Breeze, among the foremost of today's place-name scholars, has written a lucid and learned series of studies providing rich insight into British onomastics and military history.' -J. R. Hall, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Mississippi, USA'Andrew Breeze is a polymath and a pioneer. In British Battles 493-937, he uses his immense learning in Latin, Celtic and Germanic to reach brilliant solutions to longstanding historical problems. His book shows how the combination of onomastics, topography and textual criticism can transform our understanding of early medieval history and literature.' -Leonard Neidorf, Professor of English, Nanjing University, China
Andrew Breeze, FSA, FRHistS, has taught since 1987 at the University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
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ISBN-13: 9781785272233
Published: 29 Feb 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Anthem Press
Publisher: Anthem Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 153mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 454g
Pages: 150

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