Wessex and England from Alfred to Edgar: Essays on Political, Cultural, and Ecclesiastical Revival

by David N. Dumville

An important study of the emergence of the kingdom of England in the first half of the 10th century.

This book is concerned with aspects of the revival of English military, ecclesiastical, and intellectual strength in the period from King Alfred's defeat of the Great Danish Army at Edington in 878 to that of the triumph of Benedictinism in the of Edgar, king of England959-975. Studying intellectual developments of the first half of the10th...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851153089
• ISBN13: 9780851153087
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 248 Pages