Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age

Author(s): Max Adams

History

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, �lfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain. But Max Adams, while stressing the genius of �lfred as war leader, law-giver, and forger of the English nation, has a more nuanced and variegated narrative to relate. The Britain encountered by the Scandinavians of the ninth and tenth centuries was one of regional diversity and self-conscious cultural identities: of Picts, D�l Riatans and Strathclyde Britons; of Bernicians and Deirans, East Anglians, Mercians and West Saxons.

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'This engrossing history of the British people between the first Viking raids in 865 and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954 is notable for being a more nuanced portrait of that era ... Lands other than Wessex come into fascinating new focus' The Bookseller.

Max Adams is the author of Admiral Collingwood, The Prometheans, the bestselling The King in the North and In the Land of Giants. He has lived and worked in the North-East of England since 1993.

General Fields

  • : 9781784080303
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : Head of Zeus
  • : October 2017
  • : 23.40 cmmm X 15.30 cmmm X 4.70 cmmm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : January 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Max Adams
  • : Hardback
  • : 2018
  • : en
  • : 942.0164092
  • : 512
  • : 50 integrated b&w illus