Aelfred S Britain

Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1784080314

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Aelfred's Britain by Max Adams Pdf

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, Ælfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain. But Max Adams, while stressing the genius of Ælfred 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, Dál Riatans and Strathclyde Britons; of Bernicians and Deirans, East Anglians, Mercians and West Saxons.

Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Apollo
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178954663X

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Aelfred's Britain: War and Peace in the Viking Age by Max Adams Pdf

A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.

Author : Ian Morris
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374717032

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Geography Is Destiny by Ian Morris Pdf

In the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain's relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world. When Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the 48 percent who wanted to stay and the 52 percent who wanted to go each accused the other of stupidity, fraud, and treason. In reality, the Brexit debate merely reran a script written ten thousand years earlier, when the rising seas physically separated the British Isles from the European continent. Ever since, geography has been destiny—yet it is humans who get to decide what that destiny means. Ian Morris, the critically acclaimed author of Why the West Rules—for Now, describes how technology and organization have steadily enlarged Britain’s arena, and how its people have tried to turn this to their advantage. For the first seventy-five hundred years, the British were never more than bit players at the western edge of a European stage, struggling to find a role among bigger, richer, and more sophisticated continental rivals. By 1500 CE, however, new kinds of ships and governments had turned the European stage into an Atlantic one; with the English Channel now functioning as a barrier, England transformed the British Isles into a United Kingdom that created a worldwide empire. Since 1900, thanks to rapid globalization, Britain has been overshadowed by American, European, and—increasingly—Chinese actors. In trying to find its place in a global economy, Britain has been looking in all the wrong places. The ten-thousand-year story bracingly chronicled by Geography Is Destiny shows that the great question for the current century is not what to do about Brussels; it’s what to do about Beijing.

Author : Max Adams
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781681778440

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The Viking Wars by Max Adams Pdf

A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954. 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, Alfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain. But Max Adams, while stressing the genius of Alfred as war leader, law-giver, and forger of the English nation, has a more nuanced narrative approach to this conventional version of history. The Britain encountered by the Scandinavians of the ninth and tenth centuries was one of regional diversity and self-conscious cultural identities, depicted in glorious narrative fashion in The Viking Wars.

Author : Georg Reinhold Pauli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590769511

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The life of Alfred the great, tr. [by A.P.]. To which is appended Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Orosius, with a tr. by B. Thorpe by Georg Reinhold Pauli Pdf

Author : Reinhold Pauli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : ONB:+Z229218502

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The life of Alfred the great, tr. [by A.P.]. To which is appended Alfred's Anglo-Saxon version of Orosius, with a tr. by B. Thorpe by Reinhold Pauli Pdf

Author : Pope Gregory I
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547730088

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Pastoral Care by Pope Gregory I Pdf

Pastoral Care, or The Book of the Pastoral Rule, is a treatise on the responsibilities of the clergy written by Pope Gregory I in which he contrasted the role of bishops as pastors of their flock with their position as nobles of the church: the definitive statement of the nature of the episcopal office. Gregory enjoined parish priests to possess strict personal, intellectual and moral standards which were considered, in certain quarters, to be unrealistic and beyond ordinary capacities. The influence of the book, however, was vast and became one of the most influential works on the topic ever written. It was translated and distributed to every bishop within the Byzantine Empire.

Author : Benjamin Merkle
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781418581039

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The White Horse King by Benjamin Merkle Pdf

The unlikely king who saved England. Down swept the Vikings from the frigid North. Across the English coastlands and countryside they raided, torched, murdered, and destroyed all in their path. Farmers, monks, and soldiers all fell bloody under the Viking sword, hammer, and axe. Then, when the hour was most desperate, came an unlikely hero. King Alfred rallied the battered and bedraggled kingdoms of Britain and after decades of plotting, praying, and persisting, finally triumphed over the invaders. Alfred's victory reverberates to this day: He sparked a literary renaissance, restructured Britain's roadways, revised the legal codes, and revived Christian learning and worship. It was Alfred's accomplishments that laid the groundwork for Britian's later glories and triumphs in literature, liturgy, and liberty. "Ben Merkle tells the sort of mythic adventure story that stirs the imagination and races the heart?and all the more so knowing that it is altogether true!" ?George Grant, author of The Last Crusader and The Blood of the Moon

Author : Alfred (King of England)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Anglo-Saxons
ISBN : UCAL:B3545575

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The Whole Works of King Alfred the Great by Alfred (King of England) Pdf

Author : Sir James Henry Ramsay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UGA:32108009062673

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The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55-A.D. 1154): B.C. 55-A.D. 1066 by Sir James Henry Ramsay Pdf

Author : John Allen Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Coins, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : UOM:39015030658044

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Memorials of King Alfred by John Allen Giles Pdf

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Law, Anglo-Saxon
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024651734

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The Legal Code of Ælfred the Great by Great Britain Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951P01072855Y

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Rerum Britannicarum Medii Ævi Scriptores, Or, Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455982

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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Asser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PSU:000030047372

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Asser's Life of King Alfred by John Asser Pdf