The Ancient Ways of Wessex: Travel and Communication in an Early Medieval Landscape

by Alex Langlands

The Ancient Ways of Wessex tells the story of Wessex's roads in the early medieval period, at the point at which they first emerge in the historical record. This is the age of the Anglo-Saxons and an era that witnessed the rise of a kingdom that was taken to the very brink of defeat by the Viking invasions of the ninth century. It is a period that goes on to become one within which we can trace the beginnings of the political entity we have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911188518
• ISBN13: 9781911188513
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Windgather Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 9.6"