Collection of source material and crucial interpretations, offering a
comprehensive guide to Anglo-Saxon warfare.
Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title. 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 acomprehensive 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 looksat every aspect of the topic, from land and
sea forces to logistics and campaigning, from fortifications and the
battlefield to the final peacemaking. In so doing, it highlights the
significance of warfare and its organisation for the late Anglo-Saxon
state, and the multitude of ways in which it was recorded and
remembered.
Dr Ryan Lavelle is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University
of Winchester.